6/22/2017 - On to Oregon

Thursday - Time to move again, although today is a short drive so we took our time getting out of Tulelake.  We went into town for breakfast to try Mike and Wanda's, but it was closed again.  Across the street was "Jolly Kone," which we thought was just a hamburger/ice cream shop, but Joe asked a guy crossing the street, who had just left there, and he said they had a good breakfast so that's where we ended up.  And it was good.  On our way back to the campground, we stopped at the museum here at the fairgrounds.  It was actually a very well put-together museum of the history of the area, farming, logging, war years, etc.  We learned that other crops grown here, at least in the past, included horseradish, barley, wheat and rye.  We have seen several grain elevators around, so that makes sense.   They had a really nice wall of the soldiers from the area who had lost their lives in battle, similar to the Viet Nam Wall except this one had a picture of each soldier too. 

I didn't take any pictures inside, but their outside exhibits were rusty old farm equipment from the area -- hay mowers, potato planters and diggers, and other rusty things.  The guys were interested.

They had indoor exhibits inside a building of things like a linotype, old cook stove, old washing machine, etc.  And hanging on the outside of a shed were lots of hand tools from back in the day.

We didn't find out what those blue flowers were but we did learn that different 4-H groups are responsible for the various flower gardens around the fairground/museum buildings and driveways.  I especially liked this one of the tires -- I told Eric we needed more tires (he didn't agree).

We went on back to camp and Joe washed the dust and bugs off the car before we de-camped and got hooked up.  It was almost noon when we pulled out, and we officially crossed the Oregon state line about 12 minutes later (we were only about 5 miles south).

We saw more agriculture as we wound our way on through this valley and into Klamath Falls, Oregon.  We made a wrong turn there and had to turn around, but other than that, we drove through Klamath Falls, and fueled on the edge of town ($2.509 with Camping World discount of 5 cents at Pilot).  We only had to buy fuel twice in California, once for $2.799 (Barstow) and then in Bishop for $3.099. 

We arrived at our campground in Chiloquin (20 miles north of Klamath Falls, and right at the turn-off to Crater Lake) and were in our camp site by 2:00, only 59 mile-drive today.  We have a river-view site (Williamson River) with a nice view of the tea-colored water running past.  Saw some kids and fishermen on the water in the course of the afternoon.  Joe and I both put our foot it to confirm that the water was COLD!

We were going to eat in tonight but I couldn't come up with enough ingredients to make a meal, so we tried the Mexican restaurant just down the road.  It was very good.  We also stopped at the travel center up the road, which has a casino behind it (we didn't go in there).  We whooped the guys in cards again, then walked down by the river but the mosquitoes were out in full force so that didn't take long.

The Brundiges are finally on the road.  They made it to Las Vegas (119 degrees, Marilyn reported), and had dinner with our grandson Cody, who has a summer job in Vegas.  We will be eager to meet up with them, hopefully sometime next week, to get the latest scoop on Cody.  They are getting their refrigerator taken care of first thing in the morning in Vegas.

We need to check about the status of the rim road at Crater Lake.  We are hoping they will have it open for the weekend.  But we are going to try to find the falls in Klamath Falls tomorrow.  The weather here is lovely.  It was 60 degrees this morning (Dave and Mazie put the electric blanket back on their bed), and I think today's high was about 84.  Wouldn't be a bad place to spend a few extra days to wait on the Brundiges if that would work out.  At the least, we are here until Monday.  In Oregon, Finally!