Well, we made it to Boardsman, OR today. We spent another 10 hour day on the road, but it was well worth it. We made it to the campsite our neighbors told us about. It is simply beautiful. The Columbia River is right beside our campsite. Lots of sycamore trees and beautiful green grass. We have met a couple that were both in the Marine Corps and a couple from Canada. It's always fun to talk to new people. Well.....not always, but.......you gotta take the bad with the good.LOL.  We will be staying in this park probably until Wednesday just to catch up on some rest. We've had 3 pretty long days. We will go to Uncle Gleason's from here. It is just about a 5 hour trip. (Finally, a short day). We are having a great time. The temperature from Twin Falls, ID all the way here today never got above 75. We even had a light rain for a while. It was actually nice to have some humidity in the air. Everywhere we've been so far has been soooooooo dry. Lots of desert. Well, gotta go to bed and I don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning. Will probably be about 9:30. Will post soon.



Beautiful sunset from our campground at Boardman.






 

Well, it's been a while since I posted anything. We stayed at Wayne's brother's house, in Cortez, CO for 16 days. We had such a great time. Wayne got to go Brookie fishing, and I got to go to the casino a couple of times. We got to spend some real quality time with Danny, Amy, Bobby, Marty and our 2 nephews, Dylan and Kooper. We haven't ever had an opportunity to spend that much time with the boys, and it was such a pleasure for us. We have great family in Colorado. We also had our friends, Mitch and Sue with us. We took a full day and just rode around up in the mountains and it was just simply beautiful.

We pulled out of Cortez on June 21st. We are headed to Chinook, WA to visit with Wayne's Uncle Gleason Wayne and Aunt Fern. He his Wayne's dad's only surviving sibling. We are really looking forward to seeing them.

We got as far as Provo, Utah, and decided to spend the night in the National Forest there. We started up this huge mountain with snow still on top of the peaks. The road was paved and everything was going great. Then..........the paved road turned to dirt about half way up the mountain. Then about 3/4 of the way up, it turned to rocks. I am not talking about gravel, I'm talking about rocks. There was absolutely no where to turn around with a 36' 5th wheel attached to us. Soooooo, we just went really, really slow. It took us about an hour to get to the campground.  We were about 7500' above sea level. We spent the night and got up about 6:00 this morning. About half way down the mountain, we had to pull over and stop for about an hour, because our brakes got so hot they were smoking. So, it took us 2 hours and 15 minutes to get Down That Mountain!! It was 39 degrees when we got up this morning. So, it was a little on the chilly side.

We finally got DOWN THAT MOUNTAIN, and headed out once again. We made it all the way to Twin Falls, Idaho by about 4:00 this afternoon. We are at a KOA park. It's real nice. They have a laundry room, so I got caught up on the laundry. They also have an outside cafe where we ate supper tonight. It was nice not to have to go anywhere to eat after spending almost 10 hours in the truck today.

We will pull out of here in the morning about 8 a.m. and try to make it to Boardman, Oregon tomorrow. Our neighbors here at the KOA just came from Washington, and they said this was an awesome park right on a river. We will probably spend 2 nights there to catch up on some rest. It will probably take us about 8 or 9 hours to get there.
      
We did make it to Boardman, Oregon. This has been my favorite campground so far. Right on the Columbia River.

 

 

This is the place we spent the night that took us up that horrible, horrible road. We were at the very top of the mountain, as you can see in this pic. We had to stop for over an hour to let the brakes cool on the way down. It was really scary.

Beautiful Utah Mountains

River in Utah.

Waterfalls at Telluride, CO.

Where we stopped for lunch one day while we were riding up in the mountains. 10,000 ft.

Uncle Wayne and Kooper making walking sticks.

 

 

Wayne and 2 of his brothers.

 

Gonna get some sleep. Another long day tomorrow. Will post again soon. Love and Miss You All.

Well, we left Archuleta Park on Thursday, June 6th and headed to Cortez, Co. We arrived about 11:30 a.m. We stopped at the casino and had lunch there and stayed about 1 hour playing slots. We then left and came to Wayne's brother"s house. Nobody was home when we got here. Danny and Amy were still at work and the boys were with their grandpa moving some cattle. When they all got home, they fixed supper and we had a great meal. Then on Friday, Mitch and Sue got here (Wayne's Marine Corps buddy and his wife) that we have been traveling with since May 20th. Danny and Amy had a little get together and BBQ'd burgers. Wayne's other brother and his wife (Bob and Marti) and Amy's parents came over and we had a birthday party for Kooper (our youngest nephew). He was 9, and every present he opened was AWESOME or SWEEEEET.  It was alot of fun. Then yesterday Bob and Marti had a fish fry. They had just come back from Texas. Their twin grandsons graduated from high school this year so they were in Texas for that. They made a trip to the coast and caught a bunch of redfish. So they fried fish for all of us. Today, Wayne, Danny, Dylan and Kooper went to the mountains to go brookie fishing. For those of you that don't know these are little trout and they are delicious. Amy and I are going to the casino this afternoon to try our luck. Mitch and Sue are going up to Mesa Verde. That is where the Indians lived in the mountains. They were cave dwellers. It is really interesting. Sue has never been there, so they're gonna check it out. The weather is perfect here. It's in the low 50s in the mornings and gets up to about 90 in the afternoon. Hope everyone is doing great. We are having a really nice time. Don't know how long we will stay in Cortez. Will post again soon. Love and Miss You All!!!!!!!

Archuleta Park where we stayed for 5 days.Indian ruins at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.Steps carved into the mountains by Indians in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

 

Our nephew, Kooper, celebrating his 9th birthday

Our nephew, Dylan.