Down the road from where I spent my youth in Bend, McKay Cottage serves breakfast to those in the know.
Dandy’s Drive-In in Bend is the local, old school, skater-served, eat-in-the-car, non-fancy, perhaps best tasting burger and shake combination in the state.
Shoot the surreal landscape hiking along the river at Smith Rock State Park. Afterward, kick your feet up on the wooden porch at Juniper Junction with one of their famous huckleberry ice cream cones.
Put on your boots and bandana, and get your hungry pony a couple of hours forward and a hundred years back through the sagebrush to Silver Lake and The Cowboy Dinner Tree.
After some day tripping through Steens Mountain, pull up a chair at a long wooden ranch table for a family-style dinner and an overnight in one of Oregon’s original B&Bs, the Frenchglen Hotel.
