NWRG Meet in Redmond, OR - Day 4

Day 4, First Day of NWRG Tour in Redmond area. 61 miles.  We (SCVC) opted for a shorter tour today to start the week, Tumalo & Cline Falls.  

After a kickoff drivers meeting, we headed out. I might mention, all the tours except the Grand Tour are self guided.  So, anyway after traveling about a mile, we find our tour book route is closed for repaving.  Plugging our destination into our phones just kept looping us back into the construction zone.  Last resort, a paper map gave us a way around, although by this time, our little group was completely scattered.  Anyway, we finally regrouped at Schillings Garden Market, and had some refreshments.

Next stop was Tumalo for a food truck lunch at the Bite, which is a novel idea, Big pavilion/picnic area with half a dozen food trailers.

Across the street was the Tumalo Cider Co.  

Some folks did tasting..... I opted for a can of plain old non-flavored apple.  The guy had a machine to seal the can on the spot,  clever.

After being lost again for what seemed like an eternity, made the stop at Cline Falls.  Took a bit of hiking, but a very pretty spot on the Deshutes River.  I suspect it is really spectacular in the Spring.

Couple interesting sights along the way,,,, a Model A 2 cylinder air compressor...

And a little roadside engine, unfortunately, the for sale sign did not apply to the engine, Patti was glad about that, but wouldn't it be fun to make something like that run?

Seems like every time we visit Oregon, the place is on fire.  It was pretty smoky by days end, and they are calling it unhealthy to hazardous.  Drat!!  This is how many fires are burning, the red areas are fire zones, the green triangles are commercial air liners. Beginning to wonder how this is going to affect the scheduled tours.  Throats are getting scratchy.

With multiple self guided tours to choose from each day, and only 65 cars, we went all day and only saw 2 other cars.  Taking a longer tour tomorrow, we will see.