My good friend, Myra, got in touch with me a few weeks ago. She is someone I traveled with a few years ago to the Modern Elder Academy and had a great experience there, learning and growing. “I feel like I need another retreat!” she said to me. She was feeling a bit stuck with…
Thursday, September 10, 2020 As I write this half of Oregon is on fire. I am at a campground just outside of Mt. Rainier National Park, backed up to the Ohanapecosh River. It’s peaceful and quiet, the only sounds a squawking jay, the river running 100 yards from my site and the occasional black hawk…
Note: I wrote this blog a few days ago and am just getting it posted now. As I write Silver Falls State Park has been evacuated due to forest fire danger. Praying she gets spared. A few other Oregon State Parks were not so lucky. My time at Silver Falls has come to an end….
Half-way through my time at Wallowa Lake, I learned of a camp host opening at Silver Falls State Park, which is a lot closer to Portland and considered the crown jewel of Oregon State Parks. The park is famous for its trail of 10 waterfalls. They needed a campground host for the month of August….
One of my duties as a campground host at Wallowa Lake State Park was to clean out the campsites after campers left. I was actually quite impressed with how clean most of the campers left their sites—with the exception of the firepits. For some reason, people seem to think the firepit is a trashcan. It…
Once I left Wallowa Lake and Joseph, I drove a few hours to La Grande, OR where I planned to spend the night in an RV park. I took my time, stopping in Enterprise to mail a package and gas up and visited the Nez Perce informational center in Wallowa and a thrift store in…
When I left Wallowa Lake, I stopped at Iwetemlaykin Heritage Site. Iwetemlaykin means edge of the lake and it was part of the vast homeland for the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) and the start of the Nez Perce Trail. As I crested the hill and looked down over the grasslands of valley below, a wave of…
It’s a cold and rainy Sunday, as I sit in Squeaky and watch camper after camper pull away from Wallowa Lake State Park. I just got back from my two days off that I spent exploring the canyons, mountains and plains of this region. I’d round one corner to be greeted by a bright yellow…
Greetings from Wallowa Lake State Park in Eastern Oregon. Two months after originally planning to head out, I am on the road again with Squeaky. Covid stalled my plans and Covid changed them, but I’m happy to report Covid did not end them. Back in March when I started to realize that perhaps a trip…
I have limited in room in my RV, so the stuff I bring along needs to really earn its storage space. While I may shed items of clothing, books or other gear along the way, I can confidently say, these few items are ones that come along with me on all of my RV journeys….