My Life and Travels
This is a picture from Google taken from Olmsted Point.
This is what we saw, looking at the cracks on the rocks I think they are close to the same point.
Look at the trees growing out of the side of the center rock.
Important big rock.
Tioga Pass on the way home, sticking on the road.
Snowed for a while at camp.
We still had a great time and we can say we have been to Yosemite.
This morning we drove over Hwy 120 into Yosemite Natl Park. It was a really nice drive however from our visit I don’t see what the big deal is about Yosemite. It looks just like visiting Mt Rainier lots of clouds and see about 1/4 of a mile everywhere you go, it also snows at Yosemite.
Really the weather was not good but we had a nice ride. In Yosemite Valley all we could see was the car in front of us and once in a while maybe a quarter of a mile. I did take some pictures when it stopped raining for a few minutes. I’ll post them tomorrow.
We had snow on Tioga Pass (sticking to the road) and it snowed for a while here at the campground starting at 6:00 p.m.. Quit about 7:30 and was melted by 8:30 however it is still 37 degrees out ( the motor home is warm).
Have a GREAT evening.
We had some friends come to visit us for the weekend. This is a picture of us on the left and them on the right.
Here is Thursday’s drive, up at 6:00 a.m. and on the road at 7:00. I wanted to dump and fill with water so we didn’t have to depend on California for water.
This is a closer look at our drive for the day 398.5 miles which is beginning to be a long day for us.
This is our camping site for the weekend. We were the only people in this loop and only one group in each of the loops next to us.
This is our path so far this trip. At this point we still do not know where we’ll go after June Lake. We’ll be here at least through Monday night.
This is site 41.
Did an on line chat with DISH TV this afternoon and they changed our location so I can watch the season end of Survivor. We can not get ABC, NBC or CBS because DISH and the three networks will not let us see the network stations over satellite unless you are at our home address (FCC makes the networks provide DISH with the feed). One of the challenges is I have to have a specific address to get the feed and most state parks do not make there street address available. I got on Zillow and found a house just down the road which is for sale and used their address.
We had some rain today and may have more tomorrow.
Interesting things about Goose Lake, 10 miles wide, 29 miles long, average depth 8 feet, deepest point 24 feet.
Site 76
When I want to register I looked at the posted list of reserved sites. A Diana Sorens had reserved 14 sites for the night. They started at site 77 which is just across the street from us. There were two guys (in site 77) in a large hunter’s tent setting by an outside fire enjoying themselves. What we found out was these two guys had come out the day before as the advance crew for three 5th grade classes from Amity public schools. Two small school bus and one large bus drove up about 15 minutes after we had camp set up. This was the first day of a 3 day outdoor camping adventure for these kids, all 75 of them. Plus adults it reached 90 people. Two of the teaches came over and filled us in on there trip. They do this rather than going to paid camp like the 6th graders do from Enumclaw.
The other day I commented on the price for a campsite at Maryhill State Park $45.00 a night for water, sewer and electricity. As a comparison our site at LaPine has water, sewer and electricity for $26.00 a night. I will not comment on why difference in cost other than it is not the quality of site or location.
We got to move to a new site today the one we were in is reserved for tonight. We are in site 14 on the opposite side of the campground from the river.
Here are a couple of pictures of yesterday’s travel.
We came over Chinook Pass and through Yakima.
Here’s a campsite picture of site 14.
In site 41 to the tune of $45.00 a night.
We do have a site right on the Columbia River and it is 79 degrees. 
This is from the edge of our site.
And Hank is enjoying the sun. The original plan was to move to Bend, Oregon tomorrow. The weather forecast for here is 80 Monday and 77 Tuesday whereas Bend is going to be 60 – 64. Think we are staying here.
We are on our way to OH Ridge Campground on June Lake in eastern California for the Memorial Weekend with Richard and Vicki. We will than go someplace for a couple of weeks returning home before Father’s Day.
Here are Friday’s fish.
This is the largest lowland lake trout I have ever caught. It is 15+ inches and weighs just over a pound and a half. The glass cutting board is 11 inches across. It was fun to catch but I was sure worried it might get off before I could get it in the boat.
Great day of fishing, more trout for the smoker.
Ok, I’ve added more pictures.
I spent Saturday putting it together and getting it seasoned. In the evening I learned to fillet trout and put they in a brine I learned about at Bradley Smoker’s website. After filleting 10 trout I started to figure out the process. One of the key elements of filleting small trout is to sharpen the knife between each fish.
By the way here is Friday catch, looks a lot like Wednesday and Thursday.
Here is the smoker getting ready to smoke fish.
75 minutes we have smoked trout.
And yes it is good.
Here is lunch:
