Month: August 2019

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Wednesday August 28, 2019

Today’s drive 148 miles.

We are in site 3 for the holiday weekend. We have good cell/internet on this side of the park, last time we were here we stayed in site 13 and it was terrible. A sign on the water says we need to boil the water, they may have a contamination problem. Glad we travel with water, we still have 50 gallons and are good for a while.

We hav been here many times over the years. All the sites are non reservable so it is great for just stopping in mid week. We have set out several major storms. A couple of years ago I-15 was washed out south of St. George and all of I-15 traffic had to go by here for several days.

Weather forecast here

This is for Virgin River BLM Campground we were going to go too.

Bought two bags of potato chips at Costco in Bonney Lake and between this one and the one behind it they grew to the point where I had to open this one to get it out of the cabinet.

Rest Stop East of Glenn’s Ferry – Monday August 26, 2019

Today’s drive 256 miles

Spent 4 hours at an Oregon Trail Information Center just east of Baker City.

It was interesting, we were here maybe 12 years ago. I forgot to look up the date before I started this post. ( update May 1, 2002 was the date )

We are at a really big rest stop that we have stayed before.

I did get a spot next to a light pole.

Parking here we can have the bedroom slide out tonight.

LaGrande, OR – Sunday August 25, 2019

We had to be out of Salmon Cove by 11:00 a.m. today.

Today we start heading south toward New Mexico. It was sad to leave the Garcia’s we will not see them again until the end of November. The next few days will be traveling and nights at rest stops.

I do think we have a change in plans. Our original plan was to spend the holiday weekend at Virgin River Campground which is just inside Arizona between St George, Utah and Mesquite, Nevada. When we got internet today I found out it is going to be hot there.

Look at the daily forecast for the next week. The Virgin River Campground has no hook ups and NO shade, not a tree or a bush in the place. I think we will go to Cathedral Gorge State Park in Nevada that at least has electricity we should be able to get into on Wednesday.

Today’s travels.

Salmon Cove Campground- Friday August 23, 2019

Mike and Tanya had a lot of work to do to start to make their new trailer there’s. They made it to the gathering on Friday hoping they had not forgotten to many things. The best part is they remembered Jack and Bryn.

At Salmon Cove there are three areas for people to gather around, this is where we stayed.

The first trailer on the right is the Garcia’s then us. There are 7 RV’s in this turn around .

Salmon Cove Campground on The American River/Hwy 410, WA – Wednesday August 21, 2019

When we were at Tanya’s, Jack and Bryan’s birthday gathering Jeff Evans invited us to his camping birthday bash, so we went.

It started on Wednesday and ended Sunday.

I think Jeff said the final count was 17 RV’s. These pictures are shortly after we got set up.

This will also be the Garcia’s first trip with their new to them 18 foot trailer.

We had a great time and have already booked next year.