China virus… Riots all around… Goofy politicians. Unneccessary societal closures… & tons of new RVers out there making it a little tougher to find spaces at RV parks…like I started out, life goes on. Sorry, it’s been a little while since my last real post, but we’ve been floating in limbo pretty much all year, as have most of you. A big change for us has been our decision to change this blog over from WordPress hosting to Bluehost shared hosting. The big drawback was we could not bring the entire 8 years prior worth of posts over to Bluehost, so we are basically starting from scratch here. So be it…

I am still trying to get acclimated to Bluehost, so this post functions as a test procedure, as well as keeping y’all up to date on our limited activities. From Kalifornia, we headed up to Idaho. We are still looking for a possible landing zone to come off the full-time road gig, and the southern part of Idaho is currently on our radar. Jeanne wanted to do some boondocking, so one of our first excursions was to some Forest Service land near Sun Valley, ski area to the stars. As it turned out, someone mentioned that to get to the area we stayed at, we had to drive past Arnold Schwarzenneger’s fancy digs. Not sure if that was true or not, no sightings of the Terminator. While here we walked Woody around the area of our site, checked out the ski lodge area, and took a drive to Stanley to see the valley below the Sawtooth Mountains. 

We stopped off for a couple of days to stay at the Mountain Home RV Resort. We ran into a little plumbing issue with our kitchen sink drain hose (OK, a leak!). Unfortunately, I found trying to find some replacement one & a half inch flex hose to be a daunting task. In the tiny hamlet of Mountain Home, I hit every plumbing, hardware, and ranch supply store they had – not a one had what I needed. They all pointed me to the tiny local RV parts store, which just happened to be closed that day. I called the big boys, Home Depot & Lowe’s in Boise (50 miles away) and neither of them had it either. I lucked out and found Dillon’s RV, Marine, & Powersports in Boise that just happened to have my hose. Yippee! A short road trip and wham, bam, fix was done! 

We had to make a side run back to Eugene, OR, to get some body work done on Rosie the bus and once finished, we headed back toward Idaho. Ourt next stop was the Elk’s Lodge RV lot in Bend, OR. There, Jeanne found the Deschutes River Trail, about a 3-mile loop trail that followed a section of the river from Farewell Bend Park. We left Woodrow Wilson at home for that one. It was a nice, easy, scenic hike on well kept dirt trails. I felt like we were living out the sci-fi movie “They Live”, what with all the goofballs using the trail while wearing the stupid face masks and getting nasty stares from some of them because I absolutely refuse to wear one outdoors.

We also took a short drive up to the ski lodge area of Mt. Bachelor. There, we found an RV area on the paved lot, some sites (20, I think) with power, and a large area for boondocking. They did have a nice shower/restroom building but I found they want $50/night for the power sites, just a bit way too much for the location.

From Bend we returned to the Boise area. We are planning to spend a good part of this winter in this area, provided we can get a monthly gig at one of the local RV parks. But in the meantime, we spent a very busy couple of weeks scouting, checking out properties, sub-divisions,  and the area in general, everything short of contacting realtors. No decisions made, but as I started out, life goes on… Until next post.