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                         Tuesday, Sept. 11 -- Twin Bridges Loop -- 44 miles

We biked the Twin Bridges Loop out of Bend. Smoke from the Pole Creek Fire obscured
our view of the Three Sisters (above).
Below is a picture someone else took
from the same road, on a clearer day.

Tumalo Reservoir Road
The ride was pretty,
although some bad pavement that went on for about 8 miles got on our nerves -- frost heaves every 10 feet.

Again, not our picture

Lunch was
on the patio
at El Caporal
in Tumalo

.

This was our "day off," so we could bike without panniers.

Delivery bike in Bend

Our first stop was the Bend Visitor Center,
for maps and advice in case
the Pole Creek Fire interfered
with our planned route later in the week.
The road from Sisters to McKenzie Pass
had been closed briefly during the initial firefighting response on Sunday.
We would need to take that road Thursday,
or else a very long detour on a big highway,
over Santiam Pass.

Shevlin Park
Later on we did some window shopping downtown,
then headed
to a brew pub.



We picked Broken Top Bottle Shop because they were having a ukulele jam.
.
Afterward, we had to bike about 4 miles
in the dark without headlights.
We relied on our blinkie lights
and streetlights.

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