Larry L wrote:

.... isn't that one hell of a drive, for a
day trip, from Bend?

Yes. But I didn't think it was a day trip when I left in the morning....
once in Vale/Ontario/Nyssa, though, somehow the thought of my own bed was
suddenly and strongly more attractive than a Thermarest or a motel bed,
even if it meant retracing in the dark the same road I'd beat down in the
morning. Must be an age thing.....