It’s been a great stay in Baker City OR. Darla got to reconnect with her Uncle and Cousins after several decades and I got to meet them for the first time. Being a fan of the TV show Gold Rush I couldn’t miss the opportunity to see a real gold dredge.
In these crazy times we hear a lot about the travel industry hurting from the virus, but usually their talking about airlines and cruise lines, but for the RV community our small business in a lot of case are the mom and pop RV parks. As a community we need to support them so as we travel we will have safe places to park and enjoy the local sights.
If your in the Twin Falls ID area please support The Oregon Trails campground. http://oregontrailcampground.com/ A new generation has taken over the campground and they due an awesome job caring for their customer to ensure that they have a great stay in the area. The campground is clean, quiet, and close to local attractions.
If your in the Baker City OR area please support Mt. View RV http://www.mtviewrv.com/ this is a family owned and operated campground. This is a clean and quiet place and they are currently experiencing a large number of cancellations due the virus and peoples fear of traveling. We have found the owner to be friendly, helpful, and we’re totally enjoying our stay so much we extended our stay by 5 days.
Please support the mom and pop RV parks along your travels so we will continue to have safe places along our travels.
Beatty Nevada is a cool little town known as the gateway to Death Valley.
I love the desert for it’s art. There is a closed Brothel in Beatty named Angel’s Ladies and they have an airplane out front.
Next stop is Rhyolite Ghost Town. These days Rhyolite is more like an artist colony than a ghost town. All photos below are for personal use and not for reproduction! The artists have copyrighted all their art displays.
Stay tune for Death Valley.
3 weeks ago we were stuck in a Presidential campaign cycle. We had one candidate I would characterize as a establishment candidate supported by all the politicians that don’t have enough power and have been in our government way to long. The second candidate is a self proclaimed socialist, who has to be doing back flips based on our governments reaction to the Coronavirus. Lastly we have the current administration that seemed to be for smaller government and more freedom for the individual. Fast foreword 3 weeks and none of that is making news instead we are being force feed fear about a virus that is so deadly we need to social distance ( new label ) to survive. The only problem I have with that is, I would think by now I would know someone who as the virus or died from the virus but I don’t! I do however know a lot of people who have died financially from the government guidelines.
We should think carefully about allowing ourselves to become dependent on our government, one might say selling our sole to the devil. Right now it might seem like a good idea because the government is going to give money to people so they can financially survive this Pandemic. But what will be the real price be for the free money? Lets take our son who is a valet at a local casino that is now closed for 3 weeks. For him he can file for unemployment which sounds great except that 1 week of unemployment doesn’t even cover 1 night of tips. Although the government is feeling pretty good about it’s self I know my son is still worried about how he is going to survive and take care of his family.
Remember this is the oldest marketing strategy in the world; everything is free while you want it, but once you need it, now it becomes expensive. which government do you want;
We the people, by the people, and for the people.
We the government, by ourselves, and for ourselves.
November will be here before we know it. With all this new time we have on our hands hopefully we think about what kind of future we want for our country.
A day in the life of Chill’n The Full-Time RVing dog. When we go for a ride Chill’n takes his place on the center console. Today we’re taking chill’n to the river and the dog park.
Chill’n made a friend at the dog park.
So in this time of social distancing and the like maybe it time to post photo’s of vacations or just plan travels. Let’s your best #photocation. Today’s photocation is Glacier National Park.
Glacier N.P. MT
Glacier N.P. MT
Yesterday was that day where you just can’t do the same thing you’ve been doing for another day. That can only mean one thing, we need to take a drive see something different. We started in the AG country in Laughlin NV.
Yup kind of an ugly day but the desert is as green as we have every seen it. We took some back roads over to Route 66 “The Mother Road” and followed it through Oatman, AZ to the out skirts of Kingman AZ.
The colors and textures of a Spring Desert.
We hope you enjoyed this Pic-cation.
We’ve been talking about going to the balloon festival for as long as we’ve been wintering in Western Arizona and this is the year. The wind as been an issue in previous years, but this year the weather is on our side. We get to Lake Havasu City and the Moon is still in the sky and it’s about thirty-eight degrees.
The crowd is growing and so is the anticipation and off in the distance you can see character balloons being inflated.
The moment of truth the Mass Ascension, or not. I guess a lot of the people fill their balloons but they don’t take them up. In the sky at one time, there was probably five or six balloons that launched from all over the city.
But the best was yet to come. We had been talking about rescuing a little dog to travel with us. So while we were in Lake Havasu City we dropped by the shelter and found this little guy.
It’s been so much fun watching him come out of his shell. The funny thing is I’m more of a cat person and Darla is more of a dog person. When we had talked about pets we thought it would be a cat and a dog. Chill’n is the best of both worlds. He likes to hang out in your lap, loves the dog park, and rides in the truck.
This is an opinion editorial based solely on my 60 years of life experience, I have no degrees, life has been my educator.
life seems to have no shortage of things to be fearful about but the healthy fear is based in facts. Healthy Fear can change my behaviors that may cause injury like jumping off a cliff. It’s this healthy fear that helps me grow.
This type of fear (the fear of the unknown) is the most destructive in my life, if left unchecked it grows into worry and before I know it I’m worried sick about things that may happen but haven’t happened yet and frankly may never happen. This fear seems to be rooted in the unknown. The only thing I’ve found that helps me in these times of uncertainty is to focus on what is true and real. So let me apply this to the current fear that has gripped the world….. Coronavirus!
I figure my best shot of surviving the Coronavirus is;
In the end I will either get the virus or I won’t, that has already been decided. But my best efforts can only go so far and worry will not change that in a positive way.
If I give myself over to the fear of the unknown and I worry hard enough I can actually unknowingly make the very thing I’m worried about happen. For example going to the grocery store and stocking up on things that I really don’t need for a crisis that hasn’t happen yet. If enough people do that than the price of items go up and it creates shortages. Panic is not my friend!
In the end lets all be safe. Lets employ the “commons” common sense, and common curiosity. We all have different risk factors so lets do the things that keep us safe. Like most things in life this will soon be a memory.
Here’s some pictures from our stay in Southern California. One of my favorite things to do is take the Balboa ferry. As you can see everything in Newport Beach knows how to surf .
Views from the Balboa ferry. I would not recommend taking full size truck or rv to go on the ferry. Lots of narrow streets to get to ferry and ferry only holds 3 cars at a time.
Crystal Cove is a great little State Park right on the coast.
A couple of random shots taken.
Full-Timing with Jesus 