Wild west

Quick geology lesson, not even.  The west side of the mountains in Oregon are super rainy, soggy, everything I complain about.  But drive east for a bit, and you're in dry, dusty, sagebrush-and-tumbleweed old west, like the west you see in old movies.  Except with a whole bunch of volcanoes.  It's the best.  That's where we went this week, to a beautiful town called Bend.