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canyonwalker) wrote2025-07-04 09:19 pm
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Taking it Easy in Bend
Oregon Cascades Travelog #15
Bend, OR - Fri, 4 Jul 2025, 2:30pm
When we plan a trip around activities, which is most of our trips, we think in terms of maximizing the value of our time away from home and work. That means starting early and finishing late each day, and squeezing as much adventure as possible in between. That's our desire, anyway. Our plan. Sometimes plans fall apart when they meet with reality.
That happened a bit yesterday. Yesterday morning I was feeling a bit achy, so we shuffled our plans a bit. Instead of doing a big, aggressive hike on Thursday and some lighter-duty high desert stuff on Friday, we did the high desert stuff yesterday and saved the aggressive hike for today. The high desert stuff was fun so it's not like we were accepting second prize. We were just changing up the order of adventures.
What happened yesterday happened even moreso today. Today I slept in 'til after 9am when I'd planned to get up at 6:45. I just couldn't get up that early. It's because I had trouble getting to sleep last night and was awake until after 2am. And today Hawk was feeling unwell. Plus the weather was crummy. The sky was threatening rain until at least mid-morning, and the forecast called for clouds all day. We decided to put off the big, challenging hike another today.
Putting off the hike doesn't mean doing nothing, though. Hawk went shopping at a local rock shop while I puttered around the hotel room, eating a late breakfast of leftovers from the other night and taking it easy inside. When she got back we went out to the hot tub together. The rain the sky was threatening with not only hadn't materialized, but the sky started clearing up, too.
I already knew the hot tub would be enjoyable for a soak as I'd used two nights ago. But today we also tried the pool. It's surprisingly warm, I'd estimate at least 90° F (32° C). Hawk found the pool warm enough to be therapeutic and did walking laps back and forth. I preferred the even hotter water in the hot tub to ease my slightly sore muscles.
Hawk later joined me in the hot tub for a soak. After that we were both hungry for lunch. We found a Mexican cafe with casual service nearby and ate there.
Now we're back at our hotel room after lunch. It occurs to me that although the weather forecast is still calling for gloom all day, it's been wrong for the past 4 hours. The sky outside looks fairly nice even as the weather report says it's all cloudy.
I'm starting to think maybe we should try to salvage some adventure from this stay-local day. I mean, taking it easy is nice, but I can take it easy around the pool at home. While I have the opportunity to be here I should take advantage of it! The day's more than half over already, so that forecloses a lot of the possibilities. But there's got to be something we can do other than just sit around all day....
Bend, OR - Fri, 4 Jul 2025, 2:30pm
When we plan a trip around activities, which is most of our trips, we think in terms of maximizing the value of our time away from home and work. That means starting early and finishing late each day, and squeezing as much adventure as possible in between. That's our desire, anyway. Our plan. Sometimes plans fall apart when they meet with reality.
That happened a bit yesterday. Yesterday morning I was feeling a bit achy, so we shuffled our plans a bit. Instead of doing a big, aggressive hike on Thursday and some lighter-duty high desert stuff on Friday, we did the high desert stuff yesterday and saved the aggressive hike for today. The high desert stuff was fun so it's not like we were accepting second prize. We were just changing up the order of adventures.
What happened yesterday happened even moreso today. Today I slept in 'til after 9am when I'd planned to get up at 6:45. I just couldn't get up that early. It's because I had trouble getting to sleep last night and was awake until after 2am. And today Hawk was feeling unwell. Plus the weather was crummy. The sky was threatening rain until at least mid-morning, and the forecast called for clouds all day. We decided to put off the big, challenging hike another today.
Putting off the hike doesn't mean doing nothing, though. Hawk went shopping at a local rock shop while I puttered around the hotel room, eating a late breakfast of leftovers from the other night and taking it easy inside. When she got back we went out to the hot tub together. The rain the sky was threatening with not only hadn't materialized, but the sky started clearing up, too.
I already knew the hot tub would be enjoyable for a soak as I'd used two nights ago. But today we also tried the pool. It's surprisingly warm, I'd estimate at least 90° F (32° C). Hawk found the pool warm enough to be therapeutic and did walking laps back and forth. I preferred the even hotter water in the hot tub to ease my slightly sore muscles.
Hawk later joined me in the hot tub for a soak. After that we were both hungry for lunch. We found a Mexican cafe with casual service nearby and ate there.
Now we're back at our hotel room after lunch. It occurs to me that although the weather forecast is still calling for gloom all day, it's been wrong for the past 4 hours. The sky outside looks fairly nice even as the weather report says it's all cloudy.
I'm starting to think maybe we should try to salvage some adventure from this stay-local day. I mean, taking it easy is nice, but I can take it easy around the pool at home. While I have the opportunity to be here I should take advantage of it! The day's more than half over already, so that forecloses a lot of the possibilities. But there's got to be something we can do other than just sit around all day....