Having been
rained out of the rest of our honeymoon, Sarah and I decided to spend our last night at
Sisters Motor Lodge in the town of
Sisters. Our original final destination would have been
Riverside Campground—just up Highway 20 from Sisters. However, we’d heard that the rainstorm that had rained us out of Wildcat was actually snow up in the Cascades. Turns out, we made the right decision. When we went over the Cascades the next day, snow fell from the sky.
The Sisters Motor Lodge was great. Sarah and I researched places to stay in Sisters from a McDonald’s hotspot in Prineville. (We had brought a laptop for just such an eventuality.) She called ahead to verify the price—it was only $118 for the two of us. She also made sure that we’d be able to pay for the room with cash since we live in a cash-only household.
The lady at the Sisters Motor Lodge was pretty awesome and told us it was fine to pay with cash. She owned the place herself, and the inconvenience of setting up a cash payment on her system would be hers alone.
So once we verified the price and availability of a room and the ability to pay for it with cash, we headed off from Prineville and Wildcat Campground to Sisters. We arrived around dinner time, unloaded the bare necessities from the truck into our hotel room and headed out for dinner.
There are a ton of cool places for dinner in Sisters, and we settled on a fairly inexpensive diner for some burgers. I don’t remember the name of the diner, but it was pretty good. We didn’t get much time to explore Sisters, but it’s a pretty cool looking town. It’s got this whole western theme, and many of the buildings look like buildings straight out of the Old West. There’s even a cool looking sculpture in the middle of town of a rearing mustang.
After dinner we headed back to our room. The rooms at the Sisters are all themed. Our room sported a Native American theme—from a painting of a Native American on the wall next to the door to an authentic Native American tapestry hung on the wall behind the bed. The room also had a journal of entries written by past guests. I added an entry about our stay—including a mention of our being rained out of Wildcat Campground.
We left Sisters Motor Lodge with one agreement—we needed to get ourselves a king size bed!
