Oregon Christmas Trip - Part 2

I had the great idea to take a picture while we were driving in the truck through Oregon on our way to Mike's house with my wide angle lens. Gregg started making a silly face so I went along, apparently the kids didn't get the memo.

I think it turned out pretty good!

There were some magnificent views along I-80.

I am amazed at how many times we had to gas up. Obviously this isn't in Oregon, you can't pump your own gas there. This must be in Nevada or Utah, since it is the second day of our travel.

Poor Payton she didn't enjoy the ride very much. Here Austin is trying to get some much needed sleep. We didn't get in to the hotel room at Salt Lake City until around 11PM. Then Gregg thought we needed to get up at the crack of dawn.

Who wants to get up early on vacation? Not me. Not Payton. Not Jolie. Not Austin. Hum...

We had to take away Jolie's food and water so there wouldn't be an accidents while in the truck. She was so hungry she started eyeing our snacks.

She even ate a couple Doritos, it was too cute.

Here are some free range horses we came upon in Oregon.

They were good looking, healthy horses too. Surprising with this type of landscape and weather.

While we made our way through no mans land in Oregon (seriously we went hundreds of miles without seeing a single person, home or business), we came upon a lady with a flat. Gregg got out to help as another man pulled up. It was a nice break.

Few of the roads were not so good, here is Gregg with the death grip on the wheel.

Oregon: absolutely beautiful.

Who knew? And it just got more and more beautiful the closer we got to Medford!

Oregon Christmas Trip - Part 1

After spending Thanksgiving in Oklahoma with Mike and his family, we finally decided to make the trip out to Oregon to visit more. We had a really great time with them, but the road trip (1600 miles) out there was horrific. I am going to have to split up the pictures into quite a few posts, so here is the first segment. These photos are from the road trip out to Oregon. We stayed the night in Salt Lake City (which was very nice for such a large city).

We took Jolie on this trip with us because we were gone for 9 days and I couldn't leave her, she gets quite upset when we leave for more than a day or two. Austin got a DS for Christmas, so he played that sucker to death in the truck.

The landscape was ever changing, and the roads were great on the way TO Oregon. On the way back, those were another story...

I believe this was taken in Wyoming. I can just imagine living there, it would be divine.

This was taken as we entered Oregon.

We went through Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, & Oregon.

Gregg loves driving, so he drove the entire way there. He got quite tired on the trip home though because it took so much longer and I ended out driving for a while. It was 13 hours of driving each day on the way to Oregon.

This is outside of Salt Lake City, UT. Everything around there was dead looking and this ugly yellow/orange color. Not very pretty at all.

There was a considerable amount of fog on our way out there. We would drive for miles and miles and occasionally get a glimpse of some snow covered peaks far in the distance.

The second day of our road trip (after out stay in Salt Lake City, UT), Payton woke up sick and really didn't feel well. She slept most of that second day in the truck. Luckily she only vomited once and felt mostly recovered the following morning, though the sniffles and a cough have persisted.

Jolie enjoyed looking around and sleeping. She looks like she is about to sneeze in this photo.