We woke up in gray and soggy Pendleton, Oregon, checked the handy roadside attraction app on our iPhone, and chose to back track a mile or so from the hotel on I-84 to the US 395 interchange to find the "
Gateway to Pendleton Cattle Drive" sculpture for our first Oregon photo shoot with Mat:
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| Victoria and Corky contemplate how to get an epic enough shot of Cattle Drive including Mat... |
The sculpture is located right next the freeway on-ramp and there is really no way to park the van close by. The threatening clouds were looming enough to keep us from offloading Mat across the street and wheeling him over. And the grass around the Cattle Drive was recently aerated and very mushy so our only choice was to take the picture roadside. We think that the cattle are so far away in the photo that they may appear to be plain old cows but they're not! They are actually a very cool collection of cowboys, cattle, and even a herding dog (our dog, Amber, even did a double-take and a "butt-sniff" to confirm that it was indeed a canine impostor).
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| Mat observes the Cattle Drive from a safe distance. Pendleton, OR |
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| Gateway to Pendleton Cattle Drive Sculpture Pendleton, OR |
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| A cow's-eye view of what the Cattle Drive is like |
Continuing south with our goal of reaching Santa Fe by Thursday evening, we charged ahead. Rain, fog, rainy fog, and foggy rain is all that Idaho along I-84 had to offer us so we just let Mat "sleep" in the car until the state was behind us. We picked up an infamous
Idaho Spud candy bar after a cozy dinner at one of our favorite country joints,
The Ranch House Diner in Snowville, UT.
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| The friendly "Utah Hat Rack" at The Ranch House Diner. Snowville, UT |
...And waited until the sun came out to take Mat's commemorative Idaho photo.
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| Mat with his commemorative Idaho Spud candy bar |
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