After passing through 

Utah and Nevada, we arrived in Oregon. We spent time in the eastern desert, the Cascades and Portland with our dear friend Camille. We then spent a week on the Oregon coast. 

What a spectacular state!

Eastern Oregon

The Cascade Mountains

The view of Mount Hood from Portland

The southerm Oregon Coast

Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park (in northern most California, just over the border from Oregon)

Going back up to the northern Oregon Coast

 

 We are making our way towards Oregon. We spent four days in the Navajo Nation, before making our way across Utah and Nevada.

Blue Water Lake State Park, New Mexico

Driving across the Navajo Nation

Navajo National Monument

Monument Valley

Museum at Monument Valley

Sunset at Monument Valley

Sunrise at Monument Valley

Forrest Gump Point

Goosenecks State Park,  Utah

Mexican Hat Rock, Utah

Road Signs alone the route that Google Maps had suggested

We learned of a section called the Moki Dugway (originally made for uranium ore trucks) that is very narrow rough and steep, so we took another route

Driving towards Moab - the weather was a little trouble

Fremont Indian State Park, Utah

There was a young man reading a book on the cliff wall

Scenes from the Great Basin, Nevada