More from Crooked River…

Enjoyed my stay here next to the river quite a bit. There were many bikeable roads to travel, several properties for sale to explore, a nice bar cafe to visit, and a convenience store with a pizza, sandwich shop sorta setup. They had a fairly extensive menu actually, but I never ate there. I’d ride over there in the mornings, get a fancy coffee and read the local newspaper. The store is just beyond that white storage and shop building there in the background of the pic below. I’m now parked in my new permanent spot they had me move to. The services are very new so no worries about the power faltering or bad water. Each day around 11 AM it would get warm enough to need the AC, but it’s still much more comfortable here then in the desert of California. And by 4 pm it was back to comfortable so I’d go do some bike riding.

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I was over the ‘strong’ dizziness stage so I went over to the canyon the day before I left for Walla Walla and carefully inched my way over to the edge. I’d get a couple shots and back way off for a few minutes for the woosieness to pass before coming back to the edge for another shot or two. It’s an impressive canyon. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Really impressive.  And deep. You can see why I couldn’t risk hanging out near this edge for long, what with the dizzy spells.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMy next trip here I’m going to try and find a way down to that trail. That would make a great hike down there next to the river.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Way off in the distance, north east-ish, is a weird outcropping. Compared to the flat top mesas in this area it’s kinda weird. Off in that direction is the Columbia River. We’re in the foothills here. Lots of good farmland around.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Here are some animal trails alongside the hillside. Antelope most likely. This area has seen lots of human activity for decades so I doubt they’re still around. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The river, canyon, and cliff is off in that direction.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAReally enjoying my stay here, but it was time to head on up to Walla Walla. It’s just a short jaunt north up to the Columbia River then east along the Walla Walla River, only 2 & 1/2 hours travel time, so I leave late in the morning.

I needed propane so I asked the proprietor before I left where I could get some and he tells me there’s a price war going on between the distributer in Terrebonne (the closest small village along US-97) and the one in Redmond, 8 miles further south. I couldn’t find a propane sign in Terrebonne so I kept going to Redmond and soon find a large propane fueling setup at the local feed & seed store. With a $1/gallon price. Whoa! So I top off both my tanks and it comes to $14.10. Nice!

I’d filled up in Florida back in January, and I only topped my house tank (I have two, a house tank and a tank for the generator), which took all of 11.6 gallons. At a whopping $56 bucks ($4.378/gallon plus tax). This time I got 14 gallons for $14. Not bad at all. I did spot the propane sign in Terrebonne as I passed later heading north and it’s at $1.25. Also a great price. The best I’ve seen for propane since the $1.50/gallon I found in 2004!

So after that happy money saving jaunt, off I head to Walla Walla. Get there early enough to do some shopping and arrive at my sister’s house early in the afternoon. In 90°F temps. Ick. But, she has a nice powerful AC so it’s comfortable inside anyway. Since I’m the first to arrive in town for the family reunion, it’s nice reminiscing with my sister. Remember my post months ago of how I’d stopped by my sister’s to say hi late in the day and left very early the next morning? Coming early this time to spend more quality time with sis was payback for that.

Next time, fun at the family reunion.

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One Response to More from Crooked River…

  1. Bill says:

    We’re at Turtle Rock now – nice place, it probably has the best showers of any RV park we’ve stayed in. Anyway someone must have worked on their internet system as it work very well for the last couple of days, though it’s coming and going sometimes today.

    It confused me a bit that you’d commented on my Crooked River blog post so it took a while to figure out what Turtle Rock campground you were talking about. That’s this post from Gold Beach: Turtle Rock RV Park

    I’m happy to hear they MAY have fixed the WiFi, but you might have just happened by when it was just the right conditions for ‘OK’. Hopefully, it’ll stay good for you while you’re there.

    To bad we got here a couple of days too late for the riverboat trips, but then it’s was raining and hailing hard enough yesterday that we were staying inside.

    Yeah, that is too bad. It was really fun. And the weather was sooo nice. I’m regretting not having driven back up the road alongside the Rogue and spending a few days at the RV park up there. But, when I looked up the long term weather it showed several very wet rainstorms heading in. I wouldn’t have been very comfortable. If any readers would like to know what that’s about, here’s the link: Rogue River Jet boat Trip

    If anyone is looking for a place to each breakfast, go to D&Ds. Have to find a place to watch Monday Night Football tonight.

    Bill

    Thanks for stopping by, Bill!

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