Category: Eastern Oregon

Sunriver for the holidays

By the Boss, Friday, January 4, 2008 11:25 pm

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We’re not, as a rule, that fond of golf resorts. But Sunriver — outside Bend near Mount Bachelor — was so Christmasy during the holidays we had a ball staying there and skiing for a few days. Fresh snow blanketed the desert and it felt like a true winter wonderland.

Gingerbread houses at Sunriver LodgeThe lodge was thoroughly decorated and even had a room full of gingerbread houses. How cool is that?

Mohawk Restaurant & Lounge

By the Boss, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 11:11 pm

Baby deer at the Mohawk

We don’t know whether it’s the two-headed calf, the delicious patty melts or the 21 stillborn fawns that are stuffed and mounted along the walls — but we love this place.

Two-headed calfThe Mohawk Restaurant & Lounge in Crescent — that’s right where Highway 58 from Willamette Pass runs into Highway 97 — has been there since the mid 1930s. Somewhere along the line they started collecting taxidermy. Then people started bringing them dead animals. No one apparently knew when to quit.

The result is a marvelously over the top collection of dead fauna, from native Oregon deer (all those babies’ mothers were road kills, the menu points out, presumably along the highway out front) and a bobcat, to more foreign critters.

Also proudly displayed are about a billion of those cheesy old whiskey bottles. How good does it get?

Oh yeah — the food’s great, too.

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