September 25-27, 2018 Mountain Home, Idaho to Farewell Bend State Park, Oregon

We drove to Mountain Home, Idaho today.

Wooden trailer seen at the Craters of the Moon campground last night. Changing aspen on the way to Mountain Home. 

The bus at the Mountain Home RV Park.n Nice for a commercial park. We have lots of room, trees, lawn and a picnic table. Very clean. I added some wraps and a couple beads to the basket today. It is coming along.  

I did laundry this afternoon, John went to the grocery store to resupply. Sunset from our site tonight. They are doubling the size of the park right now.  

My usual rant. Too much light. Little street lamps along the street, lights in the pedestal were we plug in- which is right outside the bedroom window, plus the neighbor left their porch light on shining at us. And what is up with the colored lights under the rig?? They are  becoming popular now. I like to go camping because it is dark outside at night. . . Not that it matters since now is the full moon. We made it into Oregon today. We had to stop for a boat inspection for invasive species.  We have had to do that in Wyoming, Idaho and now Oregon. We passed all three inspections. We are camped on the Snake River at Farewell Bend State Park. This is a picture of the Snake River here. The yellow jacket nest is right above the sign. 

 After lots of miles of dry, brown grass covered hills and sandy dirt we came to the Snake River. It is lovely blue with green around it.  Here is the bus at our campsite at Farewell Bend State Park. We are at an end site with the river behind us.

  

Farewell Bend is a stop of the Oregon Trail where the travelers were delighted to find good water and feed for their animals. Sunset over the Snake River tonight. 

The current masterpiece is coming along with a wrap and some beads. The light blue beads will be added next. I am liking how it is coming out. We drove to Huntington, Ore - The Catfish Capital of Oregon and they have their Catfish Derby on Memorial Day weekend. It has two marijuana dispensaries, the liquor store, laundromat, beauty shop, and bait and tackle combination store on Beer Belly street, as you leave town there are sharp curves, falling rocks, and severe slides. Wayne and Dottie's cabins and a view of the town of Huntington. 

We drove up steam on the Snake river to  Weiser, Idaho - the home of the wolverines- We love our kids, our community and our country. On the way we passed corn fields and a truck full of onions. Weiser was a cute little town with lots of historic buildings and older homes. This castle was one of the buildings downtown. On the way back into Baker County we also passed into the Pacific Time zone. There was an ad for the Golden Nugget coffee shop in Huntington, you get a $6 coupon for the dispensary too there. 

Just north of Huntington we looked at a take out for the Snake river-I want to float some of it, this is what we found. It is close to the dam and there is no current or greenery. Think I will pass on going that far down. Closer to camp the river has current, and lots of greenery. 

Sunset below camp and the masterpiece so far in the sun and shade.