Windy Wanapum

Looking at the Columbia from our camp spot.

When we arrived home from our big Yuma adventure, we took the truck to our mechanics and had them take care of all the little repairs needed so we could feel good about traveling. After waiting for the repairs to be completed for almost two weeks, we were ready to take a short drive to Wanapum Recreation Area near Vantage on the Columbia River.  Our very good friends, Caroline and Don, from Westport, WA, were traveling our way to attend the graduation of their granddaughter from WSU.  We met them about halfway between their house and WSU at the Wanapum Campground, and enjoyed catching up on our lives.

Windy and a bit cool.

We spent three nights at the campground. The first two nights, the wind blew harder than I have ever felt in our camper. It shook everything and made it hard to sleep. During the day, the wind let up a bit. Caroline had parked their trailer in a position that blocked most of the wind. We were able to sit in the sun and chat. Visiting those two is always so nice; we love their company.

On Thursday, we had to get up early and head back to Post Falls. I had an appointment in the afternoon, so we hit the road at about 8 AM and were home by noon. We love spending time with Don and Caroline. We wish we could get together more often.

Back to Post Falls Life

As you may know, we got through Vegas and spent the night at a KOA in Ely, NV. Then we drove to Cactus Pete's and stayed in the casino RV Park. Once again, we didn't do any casino stuff; we just slept and had breakfast.

KOA in Ely, NV.

Our next leg took us through Twin Falls, where we merged onto I-84, heading northwest to Boise and our final destination for the night, Caldwell.

 We took wonderful hot showers, ate dinner, and watched a movie. We both slept well and got up early. We talked about our next leg, and because we were on the road by 7 AM, we decided to leave our next destination open based on how I felt and when we arrived at the next stop.

At the Wildhorse Casino, we filled up with fuel and decided to keep going. We could smell the barn and were headed home.

The rest of the trip was smooth and uneventful. We were super glad to be home and immediately started unpacking the camper.  It was a great adventure, and we were happy we had tried the snowbird life. We will discuss the future of long trips, those over two weeks, and will probably refrain from committing to those more extended events in the future. We will see. 

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Feels Good Heading North

I beleave Linda and I could not leave Las Vegas fast enough. After a relatively good nights sleep we packed our two carrying bags and quickly suffeled out to the camper and got things packed. I can not tell you how attached to this truck and camper we are. When we were seperated from the rig all I did was worry. When we got the thumbs up to continue our journy home it was like Christmas morning. 

Traffic out of Vegas was relatively lite and we crused on heading to Ely, NV. Our route on this leg of the journey took us up I-15 then on to Hwy 93 where we traveled on to Hwy 318 then back on to Hwy 93 in to Ely.  Crazy wouldn't you say.

The Grant Range. We viewed as
we drove north.

Our camp spot at the KOA in Ely.