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melizoic: Stopping in Madras to eat our New Season's sandwiches by the side of the road
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melizoic: We're going to fit all this on our bikes? Really?
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melizoic: Our steads
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melizoic: Scrunchy sun-face
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melizoic: The prius's "back-up" camera wasn't all that helpful with bikes in the way
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melizoic: On the road to Eastern Oregon
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melizoic: While driving down Hwy 26th near Mitchell, OR, we caught site of something strange to our left...
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melizoic: Whoa... it's a shoe tree.
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melizoic: Lots and lots of shoes
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melizoic: Shoe silhouettes
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melizoic: Sun setting
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melizoic: Enough with the shoe-tree detours... let's get back on the road
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melizoic: Sunset time
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melizoic: Sunset time 2
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melizoic: The vegetation's a bit different than the Willamette Valley out in these here parts
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melizoic: Last sun kiss
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melizoic: Sun dollops
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melizoic: More sunset
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melizoic: Big kudos to Amy and Marshall for the rockstar car loan!
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melizoic: John Day Fossil Beds -- our first interpretive sign! So exciting.
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melizoic: Can you tell there's a river nearby?
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melizoic: Like Icing On a Cake
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melizoic: Sarah orchestrates the scenery
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melizoic: So dry!
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melizoic: Compare and contrast. Can you tell it's summertime?
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melizoic: So excited to find bathrooms!
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melizoic: Lovely
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melizoic: We rounded a bend and saw this view in the distance... and might have shrieked in unison. At first I thought it was a geodesic building on the hill. Because that seemed more likely than it being the moon...
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melizoic: The moon rose within 30 seconds
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melizoic: big moon chilling on the hilltop