Baker City, OR to Evansville, WY

This portion of our trip took two days, we spent last night at Declo, Idaho snug along the Snake River with the other ghouls, spiders, and skeletons.spiders

Can you identify Andiamo in the among the other RV’s.
villageofthetreesToday’s portion of the trip was challenging in that winds were 30 to 45 mph with gust up to 50. Lucky for us, the worst gust was when we stopped at a rest stop just north of Brigham, Utah for lunch.  Not only were we not driving at that point, we also discovered that our boat license was hanging on by just one wire tie. Fortunately, we were able to reattach it to Andiamo before it became part of the Utah desert and we were spending days getting a replacement license plate.

Tonight we are at Evanston, WY under a near full moon and the wind has died to 5 mph. moon

Serendipity:

The Oregon Trail and I were both born in Independence, Missouri and I loved traveling part of that trail yesterday.  At Glenns Ferry, Idaho I learned that the Three Island Crossing of the Snake River was one of the most famous and treacherous river crossings on the Oregon Trail. In 1869, Gus Glenn constructed a ferry about two miles upstream that cut almost twenty miles from the original route. The new Glenns Ferry not only made the trail shorter by one to two days, it also made it much safer.

Note: In the late 1800’s wagons traveled between 10 and 20 miles per day, depending on weather, terrain, and other factors.

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