Day Two and time changes

We are now in Mountain Home, Idaho which is Mountain time. We are watching Jay Leno on TV at 9 PM here, which is really 8 PM yesterday where we watched Jay Leno at 10 PM. We don't know if we are tired or not. Charlie doesn't seem to care.

The day started at the Casino and ended in Mountain Home, Nothing special, just driving. My butt is getting into the routine. We have been from elevation 900 feet up to 4000 feet and back to about 1500 feet. Lots of ups and downs. We stoped at a few rest stops. Charlie loves rest stops. We can not mention the word too early or he gets excited.

We found a nice place here in Mountain Home call surprisingly Mountain Home RV Park. Fairly new. They even have the sewer pick ups where they should be. There is a Super Wal Mart right across the street and a McDonald's on the way to the freeway. We took a walk around the park, well they did it all and I did half. I went out to take a picture and found the guard dog doing his job. OK, it was a slow day and I'm trying my best to come up with something to talk about.

We cooked in tonight. Sue made Turkey burger and cube steak. Guess whose was whose. Cream style corn and salad. Charlie got smiles (nothing) as he had not eaten his dinner then. He has since. Sue wouldn't let me take her picture so I substituted. I was working hard at the cooking.

Tomorrow will be another day. We are headed just below Provo, Utah. Place called Springville. We stayed there a couple years ago. I'll try and find something to talk about.

Today's drive Pendelton 55192. Mountain Home 55452 Total 260 miles

The new adventure begins

Well we finally got out of Dodge. I have been trying to leave since last Thursday. We made it this morning. 301 miles later we are at Wildhorse Casino and RV Park. The trip was uneventful except for my butt. It needs more time in the saddle. I will be getting it in the next few days. The plan is to make it to Moab, Utah by Sunday. That's 1080 miles from home. Then hopefully we will be able to slow down and see the sights.



Wildhores is a typical Casino. they have the RV park, a golf course, a hotel and of course the Casino. At least they have Keno. My good old RCR guys (Richard Childress Racing) paid off again. I think we broke even. Any time you break even it is good. The big surprise was as we walked in the door, who do we run into but Donna and Carol. Some Bothell housewives. Wow would think in the middle of nowhere. Naturally the girls got together for a quick drink while I sort of paced back and forth waiting to go back to the Motor Home. Casinos are nice except for the SMOKE. :( :(.

Carol, Sue and Donna

I love the way they design RV parks these days. This place is very nice but the just don't seem to get the idea where the sewer outlets are. I guess if we were a 5th wheel it would be good as the car is in the front. But with motor homes the car is in the back and that leaves the sewer stuff 25 feet away. Oh well. I guess the designing planning can be summed up with where they put a sprinkler head. If you note the picture the he is right where the wheels turn in to the parking spot. Good luck

Sewer outlet is in front of back wheel of Motor home and dump spot is next to rear wheel of the car

As you can see, Charlie is very concerned with all of this stuff. Actually I think he 1) wants something to eat, 2) wants to go outside or 3) just sitting there looking at my camera.

Home 54891, Wildhorse 55192. Trip 301

On a sad note, for those or you who knew me a few years back. Margie's mom passed away last week. Tony and Jeanne were there with her as well. It was planned surgery that just didn't come out well. Emma Jean was a really good mother in law for a long time. I will always miss Roy and Emma Jean. She will be missed dearly. Some pictures and notes can be seen at www.mountainviewtacoma.com, Emma Carpenter, and if you are a friend of Jeanne on Facebook she put up some very nice pictures as well. God bless and hugs to everyone.

Send off dinner

It has been sort of a packing couple days. Peggy felt sorry for us last night and invited us over for dinner. This was good as most everything is in the motor home by now. It was also very nice of her and Karl. Here is Peggy "The hostess with the mostess"





Snuffy was sitting outside in the Autumn leaves. The leaves are really pretty right now.

Karl and Charlie are best friends. Karl would really like a puppy. :) :). Anyway thanks guys for a good dinner and being such good friends.

Arizona is calling

Yep, Arizona is calling. I went outside this morning and it was raining again. Sue was up in Lynnwood and drove home in a rain storm. She said the wiper would not keep up. But at least the trees are pretty. Took this picture of the rain and the busy down spout.

We will be packing Snuffy this weekend and getting ready to leave. We plan on hitting the road Tuesday. I hope to go down thru Jackson, Wyoming and then thru Utah to Arches National Park. A couple stops in Nevada, like Laughlin and then on to Happy Trails. The weather will dictate which we go. Be happy to be out on the road again. Now I'll be able to put more stuff on the Blog. Charlie will be happy to be south as well. He even needed a rain hat to go outside today.

Last golf event for the season

This was the last of our summer couples golf tournaments. The Wenatchee Golf and Country Club Champagne Couples event. Wenatchee is a very nice club located on the hill in Est Wenatchee. The front and back nines are a bit different. Thier greens are *^$&()&*&^% terrible, fast with breaks that are extreme. Local knowledge makes a whole lot of difference. Sue and I have done pretty well this year in these things. We have been in the money in the first 4. When we went to Moses Lake we said 3 out of four isn't bad and we ended up 4 for 4. So our saying this time was 4 out of 5 isn't bad. Well that's the way it ended up. We scored a zero. We played badly, but we had fun. Here are a couple shots of the course. One is Jim showing us the new seat on a tee box.


While we were playing on Friday with a nice couple from Meridian Valley in the practise round we encountered a red squirrel that was in distress. Maria has apparently raised abandoned squirrels so she picked it up and moved it over to a tree and gave him water. She felt he was dehydrated. Who knows, he was gone the next day.


We stayed this trip at the Wenatchee Confluence State Park. This is a Washington State Park. It sits on the point where the Wenatchee river meets the Columbia. (Confluence) This was a very nice park. We stayed in two sites because we messed up our reservations. The rangers were very nice and fixed everything in a very full park. First spot was the best as we overlooked the Columbia river.

The second site was very nice as well. All the sites in the park are big with lots of grass and room. Charlie had a ball getting to romp in the grass. Sunday after the tournament was over we went home and got some fire wood. After a laid back afternoon we lit a fire an got to smell like smoke. It's been a long time since we had a fire. It was very nice just sitting around and relaxing.

As you can see, there are three chairs out for the fire. I laughed at Glen and Janet Olson when we were at the ocean a couple years ago when they has chairs out for their two dogs. Well guess what. Now we have a chair for Charlie.

As I most always leave with Charlie. Here he is getting ready for the BIG trip. We are planning on leaving in mid October for the sun of Arizona. We are going to go down thru Wyoming and Utah to look at Jackson Hole and Arches National Park. I want to leave on the 15th but Sue wants to do a golf thing on the 21st. I'll probably loose. Just as long as we get to Phoenix in time for the races. It will be a fun winter. We will be home for Christmas then back south until the 1st of March. I'm getting excited and ready to go. I'll get to do a lot more blogging while we are gone.

Home 54539, Wenatchee 54560, Home 54864 Trip 325 Miles

WOOF

Saturday was WOOF day. Herb and Phillis invited a bunch of us to their condo to watch the Huskies game. Most everyone thought the day would end in "Well they played Ok---but" Little did we know what was going to happen.



This was the watchers. Herb and Phillis with some help for June put together a great afternoon. The bar was good and the company great. We even had a special presentation to Ron Hindman for his "Hole in One" last week on #11. As one would expect Ron soaked up the attention. Herb said he has been apart of four foursomes that have had a hole in one. Congratulations Ron.



As the afternoon went on, everybody got more and more excited about the game. We had to be careful that when something good happened that no one got hurt with the jumping.


And then it happened the Huskies actually won. As can be noted by the picture below the fans went wild as did the crowd at the Breitenborns.

Afterwords every body had a good dinner. Sue and I had to split for home to meet Jeff and his new girl friend Trish. So they all got barbecued ribs and all sorts of other stuff. Here is Phillis our hostess with the mostess. Thank you Herb and Phillis for a wonderful afternoon.

From Tacos to Sagebrush

Things move fast at Twin Lakes. 1st it was Taco Tuesday, that was last week. You know the weekly gathering of the clan. Just a few pictures of sum of the bunch. The subject was somewhat the upcoming weekend at Moses Lake (which was last weekend)





















We had a whole bunch of couples from Twin Lakes at the annual "Sagebrush Shootout" at the Moses Lake Golf Club. They do appreciate it that we get such a big turn out for their tournament. Some of that is most likely because of Frankie Stephens as she use to hang out there a lot. In fact Friday was her birthday as well as Cindy one of the golf pros. Got Cindy's picture but missed Frankie. Happy birthday both.



The Sagebrush shoot out is always a lot of fun. We get into the "Full meal Deal" That means we pay to get into Speed Golf, The Horse Race, Tournament hone pots and all the stuff. This year the full deal was $165 bucks. If you do well you can get quite a few bucks. Just ask Tom Nolan. The staff at Moses Lake Cindy and Mike do a great job and a lot of work to make this one of the better tournaments of the year. Thanks Guys. See you next year.



We had a gathering of a few inside on Friday night after speed golf. The outside deck was full. By the way we played 18 holes of golf in 16 minutes and 40 seconds. John Ward had the luck times. He got to buy a few drinks. Thanks John.



The horse race was as usual. Like 30 some teams all playing at once. As you can see it is a bit of a gang. You have to watch out for flying balls everywhere. I was trying to get out of someones way and almost got hit by John Ward. My pardner and I were eliminated after the first cut. Oh well there is always next year.







We stayed at Suncreast RV park again. There was us, the Baileys and The Rodias. The weather was good and we spent a lot of time out side. Charlie got into some thorny things and thought he was going to die. He survived. Mommy saved him. I held him down and got bit. Not bad, he was in turmoil. Poor puppy.







I didn't get all the results, but we did have some winners from Twin Lakes. Sue and I got a third in our division. I should have gotten more results. Anyway we had a good time. We got back today about noon. Our next trip is to Wenatchee for another tournament on the 26 and 27th. Then it will be getting ready for the trip south. I will get to do a lot more posting when we leave. Keeps me out of trouble. I leave you with the dog. Happy again.


Trip Home 54,173, Moses Lake 54,351, Home 54,529--Total 356