My Life and Travels
Another travel day, 201 miles.
We are at a rest stop 2 miles south of Orovanda, NV. The area is not marked with parking spots so I pulled up along the outside corner so we can put the bedroom slide out to night. It is hot and we are running the air conditioners. The rear coach storage bay is 105.
It is smokey here as is most of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and norther California.
Another travel day.
We spent 3 hours this afternoon at Hilgard State Park on I-84 coming out of the Blue Mountains. Only had a 5 hour drive so we spent some time up in the mountains where it was cooler then the 98 degrees it was going to be here in Ontario. We stayed in the day use area which has a circular turn around at the far end of the park. The challenge with the turn around is it had a tree leaning out high over the road which I thought might hit the coach. I decided it was better to unhook the pick-up than chance damaging the coach. Second time I have had to unhook the tow to turn around. The “Motorhome 100000 M” is from a previous trip through, currently at 134,000 miles.
Our view tonight.
After we pulled into the rest stop I took Marley out for a pee and then reached into the refrigerator for a Bud Light.
I found out that Pepsi and Bud Light cans are almost the same color.
We are on the first day of our Fall trip.
We will not be doing much exploring. Our first stop is at Richard and Vickie’s for a couple of days, then on to San Juan River in northern New Mexico flyfishing and the first two weeks of October at the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. These are all things we have done in the past and looking forward to doing them again.
Today’s travels, 270 miles from the big house to Hermiston with an hour stop at the Garcia’s
The haze you see is from the Schnieder Creek Fire which is just south of Cliffdell, Wa and just east of Chinook Pass. We were originally scheduled to be at Salmon Cove Group Camp Ground for week and than move to New Mexico. All the camp grounds in this area have been closed since mid August with this 83,000 acre fire. Looking forward to going to this campground next year.
Last week I commented about the no snow weather forecast, that hasn’t worked out so well.
The river is up from 1.89 feet to 2.74 feet and dirty. It will clear and fishing well improve.
Happy Birthday Jean if you are counting she is 70 today.
That is 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 years. Thanks for the last 47.
No birthday cake.
Birthday Cake.
Bryn even got her mother to make Grandma a birthday CAKE.
Today’s drive was 396 miles.
We are in site 18 this time.
Our view.
Marley trying really hard to keep his eyes open, he lost the battle.
We have stated our 2021 travels with a trip to Montana fly fishing. Current plan is to be in the Tri-Cities on June 25 to July 25 for the Garcia birthday bash.
We have a new traveler this year.
We are at Cabela’s in Post Falls, Id for the night.
Here is today’s drive., 303 miles.
Our first stop will be Ruby Creek CG on the Madison River. Below is the weather report, to be noted this is the first one I have printed that didn’t have some snow in it.
Looking forward for some good fishing or at least teach Marley to walk on a leash. He currently likes for walk around your legs which has some significant disadvantages. The hot spot I am paying for does not want to connect to my IPad so will see if I get this posted tonight.
This morning I went out to shovel the knee high snow drift in front of the house.
I found snow inside the garage.
The wind blow snow through the gap between the roof and the wall. We had lot of wind in the 60’s with gusts to 80. Snow fall was only a couple of inches, Brian 8 inches on Saturday and maybe a foot total today.
Benny looking for that perfect spot.
Last travel day for Fall fishing trip.
I have also gone back and added some posts for September.
Trip Wrap Up
Motorhome 1597 miles
Pickup 336 miles
Gas Prices
High $2.69 Enumclaw, WA
Low $2.12 Post Falls, Id on trip back
Avg $2.31
Gas 288.9 gallons (coach only)
Generator 103 hours
Propane 26 gallons, if we would have gone south we would use 8 gallons
in 3 months.
Fish
33 to net
49 on but not to net
Travel comparison 2019 to 2020
Miles
2019: 10978
2020: 5098
Gas
2019: 1690 gallons
2020: 807 gallons
Nights
2019: 216
2020: 167
I have been watching the weather so we don’t get stuck on this side of the continental divide in the snow. The divide is 6400 feet and is really steep.
Last night on the news they were talking about cold and snow moving in Sunday night. We decided to leave Friday morning and this would get us across the divide before Saturday afternoon and into warming tempertures.
The Forest Service campground at this rest stop closed on September 30th.
We were able to get the lane next to the grass (the red line) so we could have the bedroom slide out for the night. All the points are there because I forgot to turn the InReach off.