Back to our winter home

 We made it back to our winter home and it's been really hot. It was 116 degrees the other day. We just have to stay in the motorhome to stay cool. Today it's only going to 106. But it's nice to be back. We drove 4517 miles, spent $2058 in fuel, $8378 in RV parks at 26 different parks. 

We got one major project done already. We got a new floor installed in the motorhome.

Frank did a great job. This is the third time he has done work for us.

Removed the plank flooring. It took them two days to finish the job.

Katie playing with Frank as they are cutting the vinyl flooring to install it.

We went to Virginia City in Nevada before we left Reno. It's a nice old mining town up in the mountains. This is the town mayor's car. 

The town has some great old bars, this is the Delta Saloon. Lots of history here in Virginia City. There were silver mines back in the 1890s.

A lot of people dress in clothes from the 1800s. This guy came riding his bike thru the bar.

On the way to Virginia City we could see the Davis fire across the valley. It was over 5000 acres and burned for a week. 

We stopped one night in Beatty, Nevada at the Space Station RV Park. It has some wild burros in the park and town. We walked down to the local pub, The Hungry Burro and had a good time with the locals. We will stop here again some time. 

We stopped in Bullhead City for three days but we didn't take any pictures as we've been there so many times.

But now, here we are, out to lunch with our neighbors and friends at Lutes Casino in downtown Yuma.

Katie is glad to be back home and be able to freestyle and run free in her yard.

Getting the trees trimmed in the neighbors yard. Looks way better after they got done.

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Peggy and Katie are on our new couch in Reno.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Whirl-Wind Drive

 We stayed in Turtle Rock RV Park in Gold Beach on the coast for 2 weeks. We like this park. It has a Mexican restaurant in the park and the food was very good. Then right across the street there's Hunter's Tavern and Arch Brewery next to that. So we like this park a lot.

Our site at Turtle Rock. It was a little cool here on the coast. But we had pretty good weather it only rained for 2 days. Katie doesn't like rain too much. It was hard to get her to go outside in the rain. The drive to get here from Newport was way too long. Next time we'll make a stop half way.

You can walk to the beach from the park. Katie loves the beach. She likes to run on the beach. This day it was hot about 70. This is Turtle Rock.

We liked a nice little bar in Gold Beach, The Sea Star Spirit House. This is Miranda, the soon to be, proud owner of the bar. Good for her.

Then our next stop was in Arcata, CA at Mad River RV Park. We have been to this park way back in 2016. It's a nice park that also has a Mexican Restaurant right next to it. We only stayed 2 nights.

Then we did the drive from hell! Do not EVER take CA36 from the coast to the valley. It was my fault we took it but we'll never do it again! It was winding, narrow and up and down the mountains. The road from Hell!

 There are Redwood trees growing very close to the road. It was really scary. There was one tree that had a notch in it from getting hit so many times. 

Then we stayed one night in the KOA in Red Bluff. We really don't like KOA parks. Too expensive. Our next stop was at Eagle Lake RV Park in Spalding, CA. A nice park but a really bad 35 mile road to get to it. We would stay here again. 

Our site at Eagle Lake. We had a nice back in site with an American Legion post right behind us. It was Sunday so it was closed. So now we are in Sparks Marina RV Park in Reno. Slowly making our way to our winter home.

We've stayed here before. It's a nice park. Maybe the sites are a little small. But we still like it.

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The Mad Dog Tavern across the street from Sawyer's Landing RV Park. 

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On the Coast

 We've stopped in Silverton, OR at Silver Spur RV Park. We made this reservation in March. They gave us the crappiest site we have had all year. The site was not level from front to back or side to side. I couldn't even get the BGE level and our site was right next to a really noisy road. We put this park on the DNGTA list (do not go to again)! We like the town though. We went to MT. Angel, a nice little Bavarian Village. Kind of like Frankenmuth.  We stopped at MT. Angel Sausage company and I went crazy. They had a meat sale!

If you can't find a sausage that you like they don't make it. A great selection of all kinds of sausage!

And right around the corner is Tiny's Tavern. A nice old time tavern. They even had Hams on tap. We also stopped at The Benedictine Brewery. The funny thing there was one of the doors had a problem with the lock. The bartender came over to help some people get out and said that one of the Monks had been trying to fix it but it still has a problem.  

We also found the Wooden Nickle a nice bar with good food. This is Sam the bartender. She got a nice Koozie.

Now we're in Newport, OR (Old Yaquina City). We found a "new to us" RV park RIGHT on the Yaquina River. This is one of the best sites we've had all year!

Having morning coffee watching some baby seals playing around right in front of us. We're going to try this place next year for a month. One of the best things about this park is the Mad Dog Country Tavern right across the street.

The view from the Mad Dog.

We hooked up with our friend Dennis. We met him here in Newport a bunch of years ago. Good to see him.

Of course the first place we go to is The World Famous Barge Inn. They have the best double Bacon Cheese Burger you can get. We have been there twice already! 

There are tuna fishing boat docks here at the park. I guess they have to go out 70 miles to get any tuna, the water has to be 64 degrees.

 

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Peggy, Katie and I at Mother Earth Brewery having a cream ale.

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On the move

 We've moved a couple of times. We stopped in Arco, Idaho at Mountain View RV Park for 5 days.  It was a really nice park in a dead town. It had a BBQ restaurant in the park and had THE best ribs I've had in years! Peggy had a huge baked potato with pulled pork and cheese on it.

The BBQ restaurant and check-in office. The only bad thing was, we were going to eat there again on Sunday, but it was closed, bummer.

We've moved to Caldwell to one of our favorite parks, The Ambassador G7 resort. It has huge lots, a pool and a great dog park not far away. I think this is the third time we've been here. The last time was in 2019 and across the street was a huge farm. Now it's all built up with a huge supply store, a Maverick gas station and a new credit union. The road was a 2 lane road, but now they're making it a 4 lane. All the construction makes it kind of hard to drive around. But it's nice to be in a bigger city. We've been to too many small towns with nothing in them.

We've installed a new on-demand water heater. The old one was leaking and stopped working on electric, so it was time to go.

I just used it for the first time and it worked great.

We stayed in Virginia City in Montana for a week. The park was nice and clean, but the black flies were pretty bad. Reminds me of the UP. In Ennis, a short drive away, we stopped at the Silver Dollar bar and met Neil Rackers a retired NFL kicker from Arizona Cardinals. Pretty nice guy.

He didn't look like a kicker, but he was in great shape. He was there to Fly fish in the Madison River. 

We also met a nice couple traveling on their motorcycle. Skip and Sheli. It's so fun meeting new people all over the country.

 We really like Ennis. It's a nice little town with a lot of good places to go. I think next year we may stay here for a month.

When I was taking Katie for a walk we saw a moose and it's calf. The good thing was, it ran into the woods and not at us.  

Virginia City is an old mining town that never burned down, so lots of history here.

They have these old store fronts that you can look into and see how people lived way back then. Very interesting.

I forgot what park this is in, but it looks like we're having fun.

Miner sculpture in Ennis.

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The street view from the Silver Dollar.

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Crazy Park

 We stayed a week at Cedar Bay RV Park just north of Soda Springs, ID. This is a Crazy Park, Crazy Fun! We had a nice site. Happy hour at 5 pm was a lot of fun, Tons of different shots. We turned them on to Little Beers. They ordered 48 mini beer glasses for everyone. They couldn't find 43 Licor in town, but someone was coming up later in the week and is bringing up some 43 to save the day. Oh, and they liked 1921 too.

Little Beers happy hour! Little Beers are always a big hit!

Lori, the park owner after about 4 shots of 1921. She runs a nice little cafe in the park. We went to breakfast one morning and it was good food.

Our site at Cedar Bay. You could see the Blackfoot reservoir. Katie loved this park as she had lots of good dogs to play with. She could free style (not tied up). 

You can see we were parked right next to the cafe and office. Only a 30 amp service but it worked great.

View from our site.

Moose 😉up on the hill outside the park.

In Soda Spring they have a man made Geyser in town. It goes off every hour on the hour or so. It all depends if the guy pushes the button on time.

It's right behind Porters bar where we were having lunch one day. I had one of the best french dips ever. So good we went back a couple of days later to get another one.

This sign is true.

   

On the way to town we go thru open range, so cattle can be on the road.

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Peggy trying the syringe jello shots.

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Ten Sleep

 We're in a nice park in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. The weather has been really nice. We only had one little rain storm the other night. The town is pretty small but it has some good bars and restaurants. Today we are going to go see if we can find some climbers in Ten Sleep canyon. I guess there are world class climbs in the canyon. 

Pretty small town.

You can rent a sheep herder wagon to stay in for $10 a night.

At this park they have horse corrals. Katie loves the horses, lots of new smells. She did roll in some cow manure one day so she got a bath. 

We had a cattle drive right behind the RV park. It was pretty cool.

We had dinner at Ten Sleep Saloon the first day we got here. The food was good and the bar was cool.

Ten Sleep Brewery is only a mile away. We like the beer. My favorite is the  Bloody Speedgoat lager.

When we were at the brewery we ran into Shawn and Theresa who we met last year at a brewery in Sheridan. It's pretty cool running into people in different places.

We went to the Ten Sleep fish hatchery. It was a self guided tour. It was just 8 miles away. They hatch trout for the streams and lakes in Wyoming.

On this trip so far, we have had some break downs. Our dish on the roof quit bringing in the signal and our hot water heater quit working on electric so now we just run it on propane. I will have to fix it when we get back to Yuma. The dish going out is OK as we're streaming TV from our Starlink. The Dish network was getting too expensive anyway. Streaming is cheaper and works pretty well. 

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I took a selfie on our hatchery tour.

  

Live Happy and Always Go Big.