Our travels through Idaho, in the course of which I am sadly dis-illusioned. We left the Columbia River and drove across Oregon to the Snake River and camped for what was supposed to be a week at Farewell Bend State Park. Alas, despite checking the Verizon website for coverage and being assured that it was good, it was in fact crappy. We stayed ( Read more... )

Wednesday evening, driving home from a very good dinner at the Rogue Ale brewpub, I was slowly wending my way past the tents and trailers in the first third of the campground.  Looking at the campsites, I realized something that hadn’t struck me before.  The tent campers pretty much all had stuff spread all over, stuff on the picnic tables, stuff ( Read more... )

It’s been a quiet couple of weeks.  After seeing the redwoods, we moved to gold rush country; Sonora, CA, in a fairgrounds campground for a couple of days.  Still no aircard service, though our phones worked fine and we found an internet café so J could work.  We drove the area and toured the local museum; we went to Angels Camp, home of the annual ( Read more... )