May 7 - on our way to Colorado

Before pulling out, we took a short hike around Pallisade lake. Beautiful setting. Campground wasn’t crowded. 

On the road again, I took the first shift of driving. The RV is very easy to drive. 

Although we were on I70, the roadside views were gorgeous. 

We ended up at the Ridgeay State Park, near Montrose. We are in the Mesa and are the foothills for the San  Juan Mts. They had several campgrounds. Our first was at Pa-Co-Chu-Puk. Hiked about 2 miles before cooking quesadillas and a salad for dinner. When we were in Idaho, I had found Tillamook ice cream from Oregon. Tonight was our night to celebrate and have some. 

Here’s the sunset we saw tonight as we sat around the campfire relaxing. 

May 6 - Headed for Palliasade State Park, UT

As we were traveling through Utah, we saw desert on one side of the road and then green-irrigated pastures on the other side. 

We lucked out on our campground again. This was a beautiful lakeside campground. And it had a fire pit so we were able to cookout. Made this Angelfood, strawberries and chocolate mountain pie!  It was delicious. 

Then it was time for a sunset over the lake. 

May 5 - learning about the new RV

We stayed close to Boise, ID, to learn more about the new camper. Brett had told us that there might be things that didn’t work quite right. Unfortunately we found one of those problems. The seal on the living area came out of the channel. We called Bret BUT since it was Saturday, the service part wasn’t open nor were any of the RV services open. We could wait till Monday or call Coachnet. So we called Coachnet, the company we have a service contract with for a year. With our other camper, we had Good Sam service and were very happy. Coachnet didn’t match that satisfaction. However, the campground had a person they recommended. We called them and the tech explained what needed to be done and said we could fix it ourselves. So Bill borrowed a ladder from the campground and he fixed it!  

Luckily Bill can fix almost anything so we were on our way. 

We took some side roads to stay off the Interstate. It was farming country. Look at the huge irrigation machines. 

Huge dairy operation. 

May 3-4 - Exciting and Eventful Days

Need to update you on a few things that has happened us. We were driving along and saw an RV sales place that had some smaller motor homes so we thought we’d stop and take a look. We did and we liked one so much that we went back the next day which would be May 4 and purchased a 30 foot motorhome. Here’s a picture of it

So if you can imagine deciding to buy a motorhome on the road in a different state, transferring all our stuff which was a lot and doing all the paperwork in one day, it was stressful exciting and scary. We also sold our truck and Tracer Air camper. We did ask ourselves “what were we thinking!”

But after our first night in the camper with stuff strewn everywhere, we are enjoying organizing all our stuff. 

We found time to visit Eagle Island State Park and hike a little. Lenny was able to get in the creek and swim to cool off. I got Reuben wet but he wanted nothing to do with swimming!  

With our motor home purchase, we got 2 nights free at a camping resort, Mountain Home RV Resort. 

May 2 - Watch Bridge Jumpers, Explore City of Rocks

Twin Falls, Idaho is the only legal year-round place to jump off the Petrine Bridge with just a parachute. New River Gorge in West Virginia is the other place they do this but only in October. 

Then it was on to visit and hike City of Rocks. We took a scenic route through a small canyon and through acres and acres of farmland. 

Look at the size of this sage bush. 

Finally made it to City of Rocks. 

Lenny loved hiking and crawling over rocks. Reuben was able to keep up. 


This is called Window Arch. 

Here is Register Rock, where the wagon train people headed to California wrote their names in tar or carved them in the rock. 

 Here’s a shot of the valley where the wagon trains would camp because it was level and there was water. 

On the way home we came across some cowboys herding cattle from one pasture to another. 

May 1 - more of Idaho - on to Twin Falls

As we were leaving Canyon Springs campground, we saw this pretty rainbow. Always a positive sign.  

Then it was on to Twin Falls with a BIG stop. We had seen this RV sales place when we were exploring yesterday and decided to stop now. Oh boy, now we have lots to think about. We’ve been talking about getting a motor home at some point but really never saw one that would meet our needs. This time we saw 3!  We left with all sorts of things running in our heads!  Still in our little trailer. 

Found a campground near Shoshone Falls and Oregon Trail. So off we went to visit the falls. 

There was a rim trail so we walked that for a couple miles. Evil Knivel made one of his big jumps here. Oh my. That would have been a thrill. 

Then back to the camper to watch NCIS and Bull and talk more about that motor home!  

April 29 - Leaving Oregon

It was difficult to leave Oregon. Loved the sun and the coast and hiking on the beach with the dogs. Learned that Oregonians don’t say beach, they say coast because of the rugged cliffs. 

As we headed east, we stopped to see Jeremy and Michael, Jean and Dick Stauffer’s son and partner. We had such a good time seeing their house and having theirndogs play wit with Lenny. Then we walked to a restaurant in their neighborhood for lunch. It was such fun getting to know them in person instead of just through Jean’s blog. 

This is their container garden. Love it. 

After that wonderful stop, we kept heading east and decided to stay in Peach Beach Camground, just over the Washington border. Nice campground with a beautiful sunset and bright moon.