Heading Home

September 22, 2013 - Sunday
It got cold last night, in the 30s. The trailer was 51 degrees when we got up, thanks goodness for that electric blankie. We are having a strange electrical issue with our old electric heater. When running on high, 1500 watts, it partially kicks out the breaker. The strange thing is the breaker doesn’t trip, we just lose a couple of outlets, and the outlets that go out are not the ones the heater is plugged into. If we turn off the heater and reset the breaker, the outlets work okay. If we run the heater on low, 500 watts, or medium 1000 watts it doesn’t kick the outlets. We have a newer heater which we will try when we have electricity again. If you have any suggestion about what is going on, we’d love to hear.

We are at a Wal-Mart in Mountain Home, Idaho. The Wal-Marts in Boise no longer permit overnight parking. So we ran done the road another 45 miles. We covered close to 400 miles today. We came across US20 through Oregon which got pretty hilly east of Burns. Once we got past the mountains, it leveled and followed a river, though it was twisty. The scenery was awesome! Plateaus of gold, tan, green, and browns were everywhere. We had no idea eastern Oregon would look like this. At the eastern end is Ontario and I-84. We will follow I-84 to where it joins I-80 just east of Salt Lake City. Our next stop is Evanston, WY.

September 23, 2013 - Monday
Woke to sunny but cool morning, made good use of that cat heater. Headed for Evanston in eastern Wyoming today. Several stretches of road with no services for 30 to 50 miles at a crack, so we needed to do good fuel management. The scenery during the last portion of the drive in Utah around Salt Lake was beautiful. We decided it was more exciting to us than the coast. Hmm...

We arrived in Evanston about 4:30. The town has history in railroad and coal mining. There is a historic area, but we arrived too late to see it. We should have researched it some and got here earlier. Unfortunately we can't stay as we have a reservation at a park we want to visit in Nebraska. Oh well, next time.

This may be the last post until we get home as the remaining stops have no WiFi.