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I've never been in this corner of the Great Basin before: Gray's Butte, near Alkali Lake, at the north end of Abert Rim Country in southern Oregon. Love the vistas!
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Children's artwork at the highway rest stop.
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Abert Lake. Water! We are back in the Pleistocene again!
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Near Lakeview, Oregon, the highway makes its final ascent out of the Great Basin.
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Where's Mt. Shasta? Where's Mt. Shasta? Oh! Right in front of me!
Nice drive, followed by traffic jams along I-5 near Redding and Anderson, CA, and a quick race home to musical theater rehearsal (to which I arrived five minutes late).
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