Into the Twilight Zone, Day One

Heading up to the high desert and into the twilight zone.

How to prepare for a Twilight Zone trip to Eastern Oregon?
Watch all the Western episodes of course!

I especially enjoyed “Showdown with Rance McGrew” and "Mr. Denton on Doomsday".

On the first day's drive, we listened to Twilight Zone Radio Dramas on CD and some amazing music (suggested list at bottom of the page.)

A quick stop in Pendleton for dinner at the Prodigal Son Brewery seemed a natural choice. If time had allowed, we would have taken a tour of the mysterious Pendleton underground.

We arrived at our first destination, the historic hotel in Union, well after dark. Perfect.

We stepped into another world: vintage 20's music coming from the elegant dining room, 

antique furnishings, original murals contributed by a patron in the 30's.

The gracious proprietors have good reason to be so proud of their hard work restoring the Union Hotel.

We took a night time stroll through the town. With the colors stripped by the night, and the streets nearly empty, 

we felt like we had stepped into our own Twilight Zone narrative.

Somewhere at the end of town a cowboy was singing his heart out. His voice echoed off the empty brick buildings.

Just more photos...

Rosie guards my purse at the Union Hotel.

Suggested song list for your own Twilight Zone adventure (I did not use all of these, some are too "out there" for my husband):

Art Detail at the Prodigal Son Brewery
in Pendleton

• Twilight Zone: The Movie (suite) by Jerry Goldsmith, on "40 Years of Film Music"
• Actual scene music from the TV series! "The Twilight Zone: The Complete Scores of Bernard Herrmann" 
• Cello Concerto Farewell to Philosophy: (Bar 222) by Gavin Bryars. Moody, Gorgeous, spooky.
• Trumpet Concerto: II. Nocturne by Henri Tomasi, Lush, advanced harmonies, could be the soundtrack for a ghost story.
• The Planets, Op. 32, H. 125: VII. Neptune, The Mystic by Gustav Holst
• Cantus Arcticus Op 61 (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra) by E. Rautaavara
• Tree Line by Toru Takemitsu 
• Rothko Chapel 5th Movement by Morton Feldman 
• Mysterious Adventure by John Cage
• Lux Aeterna by György Ligeti
• Also check out: Hovhaness, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky

(keep scrolling for day two)