Day 4 and smooth sailing

Today we stayed on the main roads and rolled into Wendover mid day. Our
first stop was the Historic Wendover Air base which they are in the process
of restoring some buildings. Some of the barracks which housed 20,000
personnel have caved in others are being lived in by ???? filth and garabage
will try to post some pictures.Restoration is almost complete on the only
heavy steel hangar which kept some of the B 29's including the ENOLA GAY
that dropped the big one on Japan. At the start of the tour they had a good
film on the history of the airfield. Back to the old buildings one had in big
print Wendover Racing surrounded with old cars dragster frames 32 ford etc
and KEEP OUT  every where not for sale
Drove out to the salt flats so the co-pilot could check them out. I got the
impression she was more interested in the Casino's so that was a quick trip

Lost & confussed on day 3

To start with today, something  I left out yesterday was for Bob D the big yellow
building in Pentleton is the J high it can be seen for miles.
Last nite we stayed at the Baker Elks, you pickup the key at the lodge and drive
to another site a few miles away, overlooking a small creek with trees and just out
of sight is the ? R/R main line , I lost count after about 17 or 18 trains, little sleep.
so sometimes trying to save a buck just doesn't work out.
Back on the road with the toothpicks, at Bliss I tried to take a shortcut, we[was ] on
the right road but misssssssed some turn, and got the farmers tour with little road
signs that only the farmers understand.
That shortcut cost me 50 bucks in fuel,an hour out of our busy day but however I did
have the opportunity to smell lots of fresh cow shit, farm living
Back on 93 we rolled into Jack Pot for the nite, payed our camping fee only to find
out if we had checked at the hotel first it would have been FREE camping.
Just keep those wheels rolling

So today we are up early again and off to the Pendelton Woolen mill
first tour 9;00 o'clock, was disappointed the first machine in line that
took the raw material [wool balls ] and turned it into a twisted wool
twine was not working but product they had run eariler was being used
to make a somewhat of a finished product on spools with hundred of
yards of material on the next machine, then color, a pattern and a
blanked that will last for years, not quite that easy but was interesting.
Leaving pendelton heading for Baker Elks,on the way stopped at the
Oregon trail interpretive center,  Oregon did a great job laying out the
struggles of these peoples but they didn't sell me on the wagon ruts left
from 150 years ago. 

JUST LOOKIN AROUND

Aug 28

Got a good start for us today, on the road by 7:30 lite traffic and good to be on the road again. First stop was the Hood River car & air museum.My so called buddies waited till I was off playing in the B sand to
go so I will just take my partner in crime, much better looking and will probably buy me lunch if I let her
go to the Casino.Back to the museum, we had called ahead about parking for a 60ft rig and were told no
problem, what my CO-PILOT didn't ask was there room to turn around a 60ft rig that didn't bend in the
middle NO!! didn't want to get stuck in there standing water lawn, about that time a worker came out and
was nice enough to move a truck so I could pull ahead enough to get straight and then back the tow car out
on the water soaked lawn and kept me from unhooking the tow car.
So on to Pendelton,let the Other Woman rest after that grueling climb from Portland up along the mighty
Columbia river