Beautiful Bend Oregon

Our Travel Columnist returns to a favorite spot and sees it with new eyes.

My recent trip to beautiful Bend, Oregon, wasn’t really meant to be a vacation. I was scheduled to teach at the inaugural Central Oregon Writers Conference and the venue for the event was Bend’s Riverhouse Lodge. Having visited Bend before, I knew we were in for a treat, but I hadn’t counted on the drive there being one of them.

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