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A big day because there was nothing except campings between the two towns and our sleeping bags are good to about +4-5C. The weather has been uncharacteristically cold for Oregon this time of year so we are waiting to camp until the weather is better \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long and winding road <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lunch at the John Day fossil museum but we weren\u2019t allowed to photograph or film inside. They had a huge collection of fossils<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheep Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We stopped in Dayville to get a snack and a drink<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Real old Western store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In John Day we looked at camping but because it was still going to be below freezing we took the motel and split it with Rich who is still part of our group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A big day because there was nothing except campings between the two towns and our sleeping bags are good to about +4-5C. The weather has been uncharacteristically cold for Oregon this time of year so we are waiting to camp until the weather is better \ud83d\ude09 Lunch at the John Day fossil museum but we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trans-american-bike-trail","category-22","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16031,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/transamerica-day-57-marion-to-sebree\/","url_meta":{"origin":15441,"position":0},"title":"Marion to Sebree. 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