Journey Day 4

Photo is of Palisades - the conglomerate rock forms in this part of Oregon from lava flows 46 million years ago and full of fossils - with the pretty desolate country in view. If you are hungry to get away from the crowds come to this part of the world! And it is so beautiful!!!

Highlights of this Day 4:
-Old dilapidated leaning tilting barns and abandoned homes sitting high on open slopes outlined against sky and hills.
-Tiny town with great write up that has no place for breakfast but a drive in diner with a few inside chairs, and a less than willing cook/waitress. Think she has other ideas for her life perhaps.
-Up and down canyon country, pine and juniper which always smells of a sweaty old gym.
-Claro Fossil area created by a volcano that exploded some 46 million years ago and made the explosion of St Helen’s a mere teardrop of particle.
-Palisades of mud and rock and fossil that look like they belong in the southwest US red canyons, looming against the sky conglomerate rock in kind of tower shapes.
-The perfect leaf etched into rock there, a remnant of the rainforest like ecosystem that lived before that volcano and time altered this high desert region.
-Search for campsite at next fossil region up a 5 mile dirt road that was okay but no dice on the location - a young man guides further up the road, which gets rough (understatement) to another road that is well graveled and where we can pull out anywhere and be legal - which we did nervous as cats on the “rough” part.
-Up so high and so far from any morsel of civilization that the stars, the gazillions of stars were etched in the sky as clear as that fossil leaf. A
-An Amazing Day!!!!!!