Category: Oregon

Ontario, OR – Tuesday September 7, 2021

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.

Hermiston, OR – Monday September 6, 2021

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.

Eugene, Oregon – Sunday Feb 9, 2020

First day on the road for 2020.

This year will be a lot like last year.
Mariner’s Spring Training
Big House for Easter and opening of lowland trout lakes
Montana for part of May and June
Richland for last half of June and July
Big House for last half of July and half of August
Leave big house mid August for family camping and my 70th birthday celebration
Two weeks in September will be fishing San Juan River, northern New Mexico
October is Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Zion National Park for end of October.

Today’s travels, 271 miles

It’s the ever popular rest stop night. Tomorrow’s goal is Red Bluff, Ca. At least it is not raining today. We had a lot of rain in January. SeaTac Airport averages 35 inches of rain per year and Enumclaw get 50 inches of rain. Brian lives right next to the airport and they got 14 inches of rain during January. That means we got around 28 inches. Nice to be out of the rain for a while.

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.