oregon through cali to reno

so we were at ihop getting our breakfast/lunch on and i was waiting to use the smelly bathroom as one of the stalls was broken. jess busts in and within 2 seconds yells "fuck this! absolutely not!" while pulling me out of the bathroom. i think i was in food coma or i wouldn't have turned right back around myself!

we passed the 45th parallel for the 2nd time as well! the drive from eugene to reno was beyond gorgeous. words can't even really describe as you'll see from the pics below.




one of our stops was in sunny valley, or. jess needed a potty break so we pulled over and the place was so random. there was a really cool bridge thingy like in beetlejuice and the sign above it said death creek. i'm not kidding. we saw this cute little punk boy walking around and we wanted to get out to take pics (i used my holga - i'll post those pics later). we were talking with him and as i was off shooting jess asked him what it was like there. was it weird? he replied "yeah - deliverance weird". that was our queue to move on.

we passed by mount shasta (snow capped montain above) and the area was just so gorgeous! there was an awesome dragon sculpture around there, too:

courtesy of the furious spinner - we were to slow on the draw to take the pic!

we stopped in a little town called mccloud that was just adorable. it was kind of like a totally cute mountain resort that had been invaded by beverly hills socialites. so that was a little annoying, but it was so cute. i took this pic there, it made me laugh:


we then made it to a small town called susanville for dinner. jess and i thought it was a bit chilly. i checked the weather and it was 32 degrees! i was wearing my flip flops, too. clearly, i was having issues thinking i was still in arizona! we had dinner at a place called mazatlan cafe and it was pretty decent. not too long after that we rolled in to reno!