After a great breakfast of camp site biscuits and gravy we headed South along Hwy 395. We enjoyed more of the John Day beautiful valley and then progressed into the dry flat lands south of Burns Oregon which gave way to the extraordinary fault blocked uplift of the Abert Rim! This feature is just spectacular!!!!!!!! The Abert Rim that runs for 30 miles is faulted and rises 2500 ft above the valley, the highest such visible fault in the US. We also passed multiple saline or alkaline lakes which were so very scenic. A side note for you rock lovers, we were able to pick up a sample of the Steens basalt along the road which is chuck full of plagioclase crystals. :) 
We ended our day camping at Goose Lake near Lakeview Oregon. The lake is an extremely large and very shallow (~8 feet) lake that lies in both Oregon and California. It was on one of the major western US emigrant trails (Applegate Trail).
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