Hot Hot Hot

Whew - 103 degrees. How is it that we are here in such a hot place? Reminds us of Sacramento. We must be crazy. Actually, we are here in Clarkston, WA to attend a Life on Wheels (LOW) conference in Lewiston, ID (across the Snake River from us) that begins on Sunday, July 6 and runs through Friday, July 11. If it wasn't for this conference, you can bet we would be someplace cooler. The plus is that the air is dry here except when cloud cover comes in, then the humidity picks up.

While John wiped down the roof and passenger side of the rig, I placed a call to Idaho State Parks to see if we could get reservations at Farragut State Park. Yeah, we got our spot for four days. This will be our first camping experience in a state park. While I was cool and comfortable, John was one sweaty mess when he finished. Tomorrow, he says, the driver side of the rig.

We took a ride around Lewiston and located Lewis and Clark College where the LOW's conference is being held. We also stopped for diesel and with the 10 cent a gallon discount at Safeway, we paid $4.469.

We stopped at Costco and bought some strawberries, grapes, Brita filters, bread, and a birding book. When we came out of Costco, boy, the humidity factor had increased quite a bit from when we went in.

We returned home and just took life easy. I worked on cleaning and slicing strawberries and washing grapes. John sat back and read. Occassionally, John would bound outside to see how hot it was was and always coming back in to say how nice it was in here.

Thank goodness for the microwave when dinner time came around. We had bought some spicy boneless chicken strips the other day that I heated up, made a nice salad, had some good bread, and sliced strawberries for dessert. Yum, all without heating up the rig.

Later in the evening, when a breeze came up, we walked down to the river's edge and discovered that on the RV grounds, some creative souls had outlined the Lewis and Clark expedition in sections of concrete. What a nice touch. We will try to get some pictures tomorrow. We were able to sit outside for a while in the evening. Our Excel neighbors, Terry and Judy had driven to Pendelton, OR and had stopped at the Oregon Welcome Center. They were nice and picked up several brochures for us that Terry dropped off. How thoughtful that was and we will enjoy reading through them. We will be in Oregon (we think, unless our plans change) as we head home for the holidays.

We had a wonderful chat with Melissa and then it was off to bed. Another air conditioning night.