6/23/2017 - Around Klamath Falls

Friday - Happy 4th Birthday to grandson Andrew!  Today was a relatively uneventful day for us, which we were all ready for.  Did a few chores -- laundry (Dave got his done yesterday), Joe worked on the backflush line in Dave's trailer. It plugged yesterday when we left Tulelake; Joe worked on it this morning, we went to town to look for parts but didn't find what he needed (he decided he didn't need anything anyway); came home and worked on it some more.  And it's still plugged.  So that will be a continuing saga for tomorrow, but I think he has narrowed down the problem.

We drove into Klamath Falls today, went to RV service store, hardware store, visitor center, and Fred Meyers Grocery.  We didn't leave the campground until noon, so that took care of the rest of the day.  We have learned that Klamath Falls really doesn't have a falls.  It used to have a ripple in the river, but with the power plant diversion of the water flow, there's not much of a ripple left.  The visitor center was nice and had beautiful artistic scenes painted on birds.  I asked if this was part of that national movement several years ago where different cities participated in painting sculptures of their "native" animal (like the bears in Cherokee, N.C.) but she said no, Klamath Falls had done this on their own.  And there are some scattered around businesses in town (we didn't see any).

The highlight of the day was Dave fried up some crappie they had brought with them, and we had a fish dinner.  It was yummy!  We played 2 of the 4 hands of Hand and Foot, but the guys were tired and the girls were losing so badly we conceded and called it a night.

The Brundiges are on their way.  They got their refrigerator replaced yesterday and drove from Las Vegas to Gardnerville today (probably at least 11 hours) because they couldn't find a campground with any open sites.  I don't know how Collins fared with his leg and back problems -- that was a pretty tough indoctrination to the road trip.  We hope he can rest up the next couple of days in Carson City and Reno before they move forward again.  We think we are going to hang out here and wait for them.  We have a great campsite in a nice, little campground.  The weather is wonderful; 54 this morning, 84 this afternoon.  And we are waiting for them to open up more of the road around Crater Lake.  We just have to check and make sure our camp sites are available for our extra days.