The Other Woman and day 11

Well
Today didn't go quite as planned, the prospecting turned into rock hounding,
booze run and another casino, she was sleeping up until  the time we were
getting close to the big bill board say casino ahead.
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The Other Woman and day 10

So
Today I had to do a little bartering with my co-pilot, I had wanted to do a little
gold prospecting tommor but it really helps if she feeds the material into the
sluice  while I dig it out BUT for her help I had to take her to the CASINO today
{she is getting ruthless in her old age }
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The Other Woman and day 9

Today we did a day  trip up to the Lassen  volcanoes just out of Redding, started up there
once  on a porker run with the street rod many years ago, but got snowed out. Calif
has spent some big bucks on this place  and it is still alive with boiling spring lake ,hot
springs and sulphur vents on the S side, about the size of mount St Helens but differs
because in its 600,000years its been 4 different types of volcanio which is rare but it
is also one of the worlds largest plug dome type volcanoes [don't remember the other
3 type ] last eruption May 22 1915 had a little lunch up on the mountain and ended up
in Redding town at the Whiskey Barn getting prices on booze for my drinking friends.
The Other Woman will be a booze hauler when we head home
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Day 8 and the Other Woman at rest

Pretty lazy day today, got the car washed and repaired my air throttle control
valve and a trip up town at 4:30 was the high lite of the day !!!!!!!
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Day 7 and the Other Woman

Well they say what goes up must go down !! thats  what we did from Likely to old 99 and
Red bluff alot of 3rd gear and the jake  to save the brakes, going up from Pentilton side
was a lot of 3rd gear all the corners are to sharp to go any faster. So this had to be one
of my dumbest ideas for awhile but we did see some different ground but  I think we will
stick to I 5 or 97 from now on. We got  into the ELKS this afternoon was able to get the
last spot with 50 amp service we had decided to come in a few days earily because of the
holiday this will give the Other Woman a few more days to rest up just some day trips
in the old Jeep
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Day 6 with the Other Woman & my co-pilotToday

Today we had pretty flat going, high desert long and straight just let it roll and we
rolled right into the town of Likely Calif and where are we staying ?? Likely RV
park. Just took it easy later in the day a couple we met in John Day rolled in and
had a good visit with them found out they were headed to Chico also
I think the Susanville casino will be our next stop.
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The other woman and day 5

Well, The Other Woman was a perfect lady today, had some pretty good grades getting
into Burns. Found a nice RV park and let the old girl rest again and thats not my
co-pilot I am talking about.Burns has a great little museum where we wasted a couple
hours.From there to the Elks lodge for our free BEER, always a good place to get info
from the locals about things of interest. So off to CRANE city, population 150, not a
very well kept city !!! next was Diamond with the original hotel built in 1899 still
operating. We went in at looked at the rooms [nicely done] they even serve dinner
with reservations and breakfast comes with room. The last stop was a round barn
100 ft' in diameter with a inner stone wall 9ft' high and 60ft in diameter the stones had
to be hauled 8miles, the building was used for training horses in the winter and there
wasn't a sign of any other old buildings as far as the eye could see just a lone building
in the middle of no where  ?????
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The Other Woman day 4

Today we let the [other woman rest] and headed out to the John day fossil beds to check
out life 45 million years ago this was at the Sheep rocks unit along with the new
Thomas Condon {not condom} Paleontology center, with people setting in sealed rooms
picking dirt of some fossil using a million dollar scope way over the edge and we wonder
where some of the funds go. The Cant historic ranch house just up the road was done on
a realistic budget. From there we headed to the Grant county museum they covered the
gold rush memorabillia, early pioneers daily lives, even the skulls of the first 2 men hung
in grant county great little museum. Saved the best for last The DeWitt museum and the
Sumpter Valley railroad with lots of pictures of old train wrecks and related memorabilla
even the old safe some robbers to blow up with 25 sticks of dynamite only to blow the whole
roof off the building and didn't get the gold inside

The other woman and day 3
Well, the day started pretty darn good but went down hill from there, this 395 is a
beautiful drive but hard climb with 90 degree + weather my fan drive has been
getting so warm its pushing oil out the vent. Then my co-pilot kept asking what
that noise is, finally when it got to the point of a loud whistle I could even hear
it, throttle valve seal leaking air, found a good spot for a little road side repair,
a few oh darns and dog gone its we  were back on the road again. Then when we
got to the park and went to plug in our EMS system code said low voltage on
line 2 OK check the box good, found lose wire on my plug, fixed that, then
system said replace surge, SCREW IT and wired around the damn thing
Time for a drink or 2 and get ready for the next day
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Day 2 and the other woman is still moving along !! Got to the casino in Pendliton about
midday. My co-pilot was gone soon as the bus stopped rolling with player card in hand.
She did reappeared about 6ish to buy me dinner with her winnings only to leave me again
while I finished my ice cream cone and wonder how I was getting back to the bus. She
was lost in the casino smoke and it was a good thing I had on walking shoes !! yep I walked
a 1/2 mile back to the bus and thats the whole story  without the real facts.
The fire at the dalles jumped the fire line and spreading but smoke hasn't been a problem
for us so far.
Will top off on fuel in the morning, find  395 and start heading S and into a unknown area
for us

The OTHER WOMAN on the move again
Got out on time, stopped by the old work place just to rub retirement in to the few guys left.
Bus is doing good, having problems with ref. not switching over to gas have to do it manual
We are at the Deschutes state campground just out of  The Dalles nice little park but millions
of little bugs are Getting in the bus thru the fine window screens and it is a wee bit warm. So
my co-pilot is not in the best of mood. Will try to get her to a CASINO to make things better