Tuesday July 8th
We have now arrived safely back home.
Now that we are back we are busily seeing our lovely family and plotting our next adventure, which will be about Mountain Men, Lewis and Clarke, Nez Pierce Indians, gold and gem prospecting and more rivers and mountain scenery, as well as seeing our friends again.
The next blog will be:
Fall 2014: Rocky Mountain High ( http://roadblog14fall.blogspot.com/ )
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Home again
Monday 7th July
We had an uneventful flight from Boise to Seattle, the plane followed the Payette River, where we could look straight up the Snake River Gorge to Hell's Canyon, which we hope to visit next trip, and the I84 past Baker City, to Pendleton, where we could see the still snow covered Wallawa Mountains to the North and the broad sweep of the Columbia River as it curved past the Tri City area. Most impressive was dropping through the clouds to see that we were flying alongside Mt Rainier, before landing at Seatac Airport.
We stayed at the Red Roof Hotel for our overnight stopover, the nearest food being at a Denny's, not a good choice. We sat for 70 minutes waiting for our food, though there was a reason - A Convention was in town. The "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" is a convention which fills the area not only with My little Pony fans, but also spawns MLP lookalikes and costumed characters. The overall effect in Denny's was almost surreal and did provide some entertainment while we waited for our meal.
Our flight from Seattle to home went well and we arrived on time and in one piece. The only disappointing aspect was that the food on the Delta flight was miserable, still you can't have everything.
We had an uneventful flight from Boise to Seattle, the plane followed the Payette River, where we could look straight up the Snake River Gorge to Hell's Canyon, which we hope to visit next trip, and the I84 past Baker City, to Pendleton, where we could see the still snow covered Wallawa Mountains to the North and the broad sweep of the Columbia River as it curved past the Tri City area. Most impressive was dropping through the clouds to see that we were flying alongside Mt Rainier, before landing at Seatac Airport.
We stayed at the Red Roof Hotel for our overnight stopover, the nearest food being at a Denny's, not a good choice. We sat for 70 minutes waiting for our food, though there was a reason - A Convention was in town. The "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" is a convention which fills the area not only with My little Pony fans, but also spawns MLP lookalikes and costumed characters. The overall effect in Denny's was almost surreal and did provide some entertainment while we waited for our meal.
Our flight from Seattle to home went well and we arrived on time and in one piece. The only disappointing aspect was that the food on the Delta flight was miserable, still you can't have everything.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Chuck and Carla
Tuesday 1st July
On Tueday morning we packed up from the Hegerman RV Vilage and travelled on to our final stop for this trip. Chuck and Carla! We can look back now and know how wonderful these people are, but as we approached their house we did wonder what might be about to happen.
We had met Chuck and Carla in the parking lot at the overlook to the Grand Coulee Dam, where they had made he offer for us to stay with them before we put the rig into storage. They were total strangers and we had only talked for about 20 minutes.That was over a month ago, and here we were bowling up to their front door to camp on their front drive. Worse than that, we also wanted to use their carpet shampooer and then wash the rig! What a cheek! What if they disliked us? What if we disliked them!
But our fears were groundless, as we turned into their drive they threw open the front door and welcome us with warmth and smiles. They just couldn't have been more helpful and welcoming. They have a lovely house and garden, which they showed us round. They have a little canal at the bottom of the garden, the house is amongst fields, this year mint is the crop and whenever the breeze come from the North the air had a lovely minty smell. They have a big swing and a teepee.
Chuck is a mechanic and has a huge workshop with a beautiful 1986 Marathon coach, very luxurious (pics after our next visit). Also a bright yellow Cobra replica kit car, that he took both Sally and me for a ride in. Very low, very responsive, very nice.
So we spent the next three days cleaning the truck and the trailer, Chuck helped with the washing of them and even polished out some of the scratches in the paintwork - Thank you Chuck.
Chuck and Carla love to cook and fed us royally, we managed to return a little of their hospitality by taking them for a meal in a Basque restaurant, which was great fun for us, though I don't think sheep enjoy being there!
We were not the only visitors to Chuck and Carla's home, while we were there a swarm of bees took up temporary residence in the garden, which was very interesting. Their garden is also home to a hawk and at least one family of those delightful California Quail.
We spent July 4th with them, the highlight, apart from Chuck's BBQ Steak, being watching the fireworks that all their neighbours were setting off.
All too soon we found ourselves hitching the trailer up to take it to the storage we had arranged in Boise and after saying fond farewells we were off on our journey back home.
On Tueday morning we packed up from the Hegerman RV Vilage and travelled on to our final stop for this trip. Chuck and Carla! We can look back now and know how wonderful these people are, but as we approached their house we did wonder what might be about to happen.
We had met Chuck and Carla in the parking lot at the overlook to the Grand Coulee Dam, where they had made he offer for us to stay with them before we put the rig into storage. They were total strangers and we had only talked for about 20 minutes.That was over a month ago, and here we were bowling up to their front door to camp on their front drive. Worse than that, we also wanted to use their carpet shampooer and then wash the rig! What a cheek! What if they disliked us? What if we disliked them!
But our fears were groundless, as we turned into their drive they threw open the front door and welcome us with warmth and smiles. They just couldn't have been more helpful and welcoming. They have a lovely house and garden, which they showed us round. They have a little canal at the bottom of the garden, the house is amongst fields, this year mint is the crop and whenever the breeze come from the North the air had a lovely minty smell. They have a big swing and a teepee.
Chuck is a mechanic and has a huge workshop with a beautiful 1986 Marathon coach, very luxurious (pics after our next visit). Also a bright yellow Cobra replica kit car, that he took both Sally and me for a ride in. Very low, very responsive, very nice.
So we spent the next three days cleaning the truck and the trailer, Chuck helped with the washing of them and even polished out some of the scratches in the paintwork - Thank you Chuck.
Chuck and Carla love to cook and fed us royally, we managed to return a little of their hospitality by taking them for a meal in a Basque restaurant, which was great fun for us, though I don't think sheep enjoy being there!
We were not the only visitors to Chuck and Carla's home, while we were there a swarm of bees took up temporary residence in the garden, which was very interesting. Their garden is also home to a hawk and at least one family of those delightful California Quail.
We spent July 4th with them, the highlight, apart from Chuck's BBQ Steak, being watching the fireworks that all their neighbours were setting off.
All too soon we found ourselves hitching the trailer up to take it to the storage we had arranged in Boise and after saying fond farewells we were off on our journey back home.
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