bend friends

my next destination was bend oregon.  on my way there i picked up a hitch hiker named bobby.  we didn't talk much but he was happy to find a ride for a hundred miles.

it was a very pretty drive

then i met up my friends jon and jamie and their new baby kincade.  it was especially nice to see them because i had missed them on two other separate occasions during my trip.  interestingly, my first attempt to visit them was before jamie was pregnant, the second was while she was pregnant, and the third was after kincade was born.  was my trip really that long?  : )

and of course, aspen!

after my visit with them i continued south

i stopped to sleep at a walmart just short of the california border.  a several day heat wave had covered the area so it turned out to be one of the hottest nights in my van on my trip.  it was a stuffy 84 degrees in my van as i went to sleep.  but don't get it wrong, i was still happy for the warmer weather!