I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 744. Today the amateur traveler talks about hikes and

hops and hops, lava tubes and lakes, lava lands and painted hills as we go to Bend and Central Oregon.

Oregon.

I know that I should be heading home.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Chris Hinton. Let's talk about

Central Oregon. I'd like to welcome to the show Catherine Ryan Gregory from to and frofam.com who's

come to talk to us about Central Oregon. Catherine welcome to the show.

Thanks so much Chris. I'm Oregon.

Thank you, Catherine, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much, Chris. I'm glad to be here. People didn't get it.

Two and Froh fam is a family centered travel blogging site. Yep, that's right.

So it's mostly family travel, but I am of the firm belief that parents would also travel

by themselves or with friends, and so it has a little bit for everybody on there.

And we'll talk more about that and a couple of other projects that Catherine's doing later on, but first we're going to have you fall in love with her

as we talk about Central Oregon.

Now, Catherine, what's your connection to Central Oregon?

Well, I grew up in Oregon and Eugene,

which is a couple of hours from Central Oregon, and my family traveled. and

my family traveled around the state and the Pacific Northwest quite a bit.

So I grew up going to Central Oregon on family vacations and so forth and then when I was an adult I moved back to

Oregon and now pretty much whenever I need a dose of sun since I live in

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