We had a breakfast of peaches and toast before leaving around 9. We stopped for a fill-up at 3.09 in Bend then 10 miles down the road we stopped for Starbucks and bought a picnic lunch and water. An hour down the road the smoke got pretty thick and the road to Crater Lake was closed due to fire. We chose to abandon ship and took Hwy 158 to Florence. We had a picnic lunch stop on the Willamette River at Lowell Bridge which was a preserved historic covered bridge. We had a nice walk through the bridge and then headed towards Florence. We found we could modify our reservation from tomorrow night to tonight which saved us some money. The bad news was our reservation down in Prospect outside of Crater Lake is going to cost us $150.
We enjoyed the little walk down Bay St in Old Town Florence. We had wine and cheese on our balcony overlooking the water then walked down to the Bridgewater restaurant where we had dinner. We started with a Pinot Noir then I ordered Surf and Turf which was Flat Iron steak and mushrooms along with broiled shrimp.