Since we’re almost always visiting Bend from Portland, we usually come down Highway 26 through Government Camp and past Mount Hood. As soon as you cross the Cascades and turn south towards Bend, you start to see the landscapes changing from the ferny underbrush and towering evergreens that are emblematic of Western Oregon, to scrubbrush…
As you’ll find plastered all over this website, one of the things we love about living in Portland is the fact that, within 90 minutes, you can either be on the beach at the Pacific Ocean, or at the base of the highest peak in Oregon. What we don’t often say is that when you…
On our last trip to Bend, which took us from our home in Portland out Highway 26 past the base of Mount Hood and into central Oregon, we spent a good chunk of the drive talking about how fast and drastically the landscape changes as soon as you cross over the Cascades. Dense evergreen forests…