Tonight is the last night of this great trip.  Above is a view of the Blue Mountains from Wildhorse Casino and RV Park just outside of Pendleton, OR, with a fog settled into the foreground.  So beautiful!

We drove here on Sunday from the Boise area.  This is a campground we have used and enjoyed at least 3 times before.  Pendleton is known for its big rodeo, The Pendleton Roundup, which takes place in September.  

On Sunday night we ate at a cute place called the Prodigal Son and sat at a little table cut from a slice of tree and polished. 

Last night we went to the casino to see the movie "Jason Bourne" and halfway through it a thunderstorm blew through and turned off the electricity in the whole area.  We went back to the TrailBayser and, having nothing better to do, went to sleep.  The power came on after about 4 hours.  We went back to the theater tonight to see the rest of the movie.  Gary really liked it.

Gary played 18 holes of golf yesterday and nine today.  I was so glad he was able to do it.  Yesterday was quite windy but today was calm.  The temperatures have reached 81 both days.  So refreshing after the heat wave and humidity in the east. 

Can't wait to see our family and friends at home.  Unless something unexpected happens tomorrow, this will be my last blog entry for this trip.  We have two more short trips tentatively planned for fall.  Stay tuned.

Just a short note tonight.  We saw this wine glass and bottle on I-84 on our way from Twin Falls, ID to Meridian, which is a few miles past Boise.

We are staying overnight at a lovely KOA in Meridian.  This is our type of campground, with asphalt roads, concrete pathways and gravel only in the sites themselves.  Baby likes this better, too.  Easier on her little paws.

We did not unhitch the car so we can get an early start tomorrow, so I was very lucky to see a Starbucks was within walking distance.  A great treat after our leftovers for dinner.

Tomorrow morning we will leave for our final stop at Wildhorse Casino in Pendleton, OR.  Good weather is expected so Gary can get in some golf.  We plan to be there for three nights and then go home on Wednesday.

Today we did the tourist thing around Twin Falls, ID.  Above is a statue of I.B. Perrine, the founder of this and several other Idaho towns.  This was found at the Twin Falls Visitor Center which looks over the Snake River Canyon.

This is a replica of Perrine's carriage and below is the bridge over the river named for him, although the locals call it the Potato Bridge.

Here is Gary standing by a miniature of the bridge outside the Visitor's Center.

You can just about tell that this is a picture of people kayaking on the Snake.  After the Visitor's Center, we went to see Shoshone Falls, also billed as the Niagara of the West.

When the river is up and they are not diverting water for farm irrigation, all of the rocks have water pouring over them.  I hope you can see the rainbow in the water in the pictures below.

This picture was in the Visitor's Center and shows the falls when more water is available.

Another interesting site nearby is the Minidoka Museum, which is not yet completed.  They call it a work in progress, but I found it a little disconcerting that this long after WW2 this compilation of the history of the disgraceful Japanese internment camps is not yet finished.

Gary played golf today at Canyon Springs Golf Course.  This is only the second time he has played on this trip.  Here is a view of the second hole in the Snake River Canyon.

We must be over the rainbow, because we found the Tin Man in a field outside of Jerome, ID today.  Actually, there is a phone app called Roadside that tells you where many strange things are located so you can see them on your travels.  This was so close to our new campground, KOA Twin Falls/Jerome,  that we had to go.

We reached this typical KOA after a hard driving day.  The wind was 25-35 mph the whole way and Gary's arms ached from fighting to keep in the lane.  Luckily, it was a fairly short drive, only about 3 hours.  We are going to stay here three nights.  Below is a picture looking out one of the bedroom windows of the TrailBayser.

Before dinner we took a short ride to find a golf course in the Snake River Canyon.  It is gorgeous there.  We saw a waterfall, a nice view of the bridge over the river and some lovely views of the river itself.

We also saw a ranch with a big sign over the entryway that said El Rancho Co$ta Plente.

Tomorrow we will have more adventures but one of them will not be the zip line called Zip the Snake.

Yesterday started out with a big boo-boo.  We were supposed to be heading for Green River, WY but I made reservations in a KOA in Green River, UT.  Only approximately a 200 mile error and it was nowhere near where we intended to go.  Thank goodness, when I put the address into the GPS, it told us we were driving 466 miles today, so we knew there was something amiss.  So, I called Utah and confessed and they allowed us to cancel with only a $10 penalty.  Very nice of them.  Also, we were able to get into the Wyoming park, which is certainly not guaranteed when school is out and everyone is on the road with their kids.  The covered wagon above was opposite our space.

When we arrived at the KOA in Wyoming, they had given us a space with only 30 amps so Gary used his many charms to talk them into a 50 amp site so we could use both air conditioners.  The only 50 amp site they had available was their only Super Site, which had its own patio, complete with table, chairs and a wooden porch swing.  We used our KOA points and it only cost $4.95.  Very lucky and not likely to ever happen again.

This campground is mainly gravel with a few small trees and many people gave it poor reviews online, but if you look at the surrounding geography, there aren't any trees here.  The few there were had been planted by the owners and taken care of carefully.  The dog run was all grass. We thought the camp was fine.

We met a couple from Beaverton, Oregon who were pulling an Airstream exactly like ours.  We really hit it off and ended up eating dinner together on the patio and exchanging information so we can see each other at home.  David and Penne S. and we have lots in common besides our trailers.  That was very exciting and the first time it has happened.

Green River, WY was making an attempt to be like bigger places that have fiberglass horses, cowboy boots, etc. as mascots but they couldn't quite afford those so they had plywood steers set up in a way that was 3 dimensional and painted.  Very cute.

Today we drove to Brigham City, UT to a KOA that we have used before.  The scenery was spectacular.

We kept getting "Red Flag" warnings on our cell phones which meant that the extreme heat made the likelihood of fire imminent.  In contrast to that we saw miles and miles of snow fences along the highway which keep the drifts off the highways in winter.

There are many places along I-80 and I-84 where they can completely close the highway because of adverse conditions.  If the lights are blinking, you must exit and they lower gates over the on-ramps to keep new people from entering the highways.  So far, we haven't encountered any closures, but I'm sure it happens fairly regularly in winter and during high winds.

Tomorrow we will drive to Twin Falls, ID and spend three nights.