Saturday, September 6, 2025

Friday, September 5, 2025 KOA stands for Kiss Our Ass

Friday, September 5, 2025 KOA stands for Kiss Our Ass

It is morning and my humans have not yet fed me.  When I crawl on them, I give them a little ‘mao’.  Not a full meow, nah.  A gentle ‘mao’ with an upward lilt at the end.  That makes it seem I am not demanding, even though I am.  A ‘mao’ and turning my purr box all the way up certainly gets their attention.

We are staying at a KOA Kampground.  We normally don’t use KOA’s as they are expensive and have amenities we don’t use.  But we wanted to do laundry, and according to Spouse, the price was right.  So we started our morning in the clean laundry room.  We decided to stay an extra day here to catch up on some things.  When Spouse went to pay, he was shocked when they told him it would be $40 more than last night.  Needless to say, he told them to KOA, if you know what I mean.  We finished our laundry and readied Artie for the road.  The tanks are all empty, we have fresh water…

I must make a correction…  The cracks in the windshield are not 6 or 7 inches.  They are more like 11 or 12 inches… F’n truck…



We stopped in town to do our morning walk.  Lava City is a small town, but it is cute.  The Pontneuf River runs behind the town.  There are a gazillion tubing options where they shuttle you up and down the river.  We thought about doing it but found out it is only about a quarter mile float down a couple of rapids.  Then they pick you up and you do it again.  We once did the Au Sable Chasm in New York (or Vermont, not sure).  We floated for miles through rocky canyons.  It was so much fun.  But this… a quarter mile?  Nah.  We found a nice sunken garden.  They had some grape sized plums that were sweet.  There were apples on the ground.  There were flowers and stone walkways and all things garden pretty.  Then, back to Artie.





 We are working our way to La Grande in Oregon.  There, Arctic Fox and Outdoor RV have their factories and we were thinking of touring them. 

We are always prepared to boondock.  As long as the temperature is not too hot, we keep boondocking as an option.  If it is too hot, we can use the generator to run the air conditioner, but probably not as long as we would like to.  So if it is hot, electricity is good.

We start off on hwy. 30 west, then I15 north to Pocatello.  There are mountains, but it is very arid, and we are back to the color of straw. 

We work our way to Pocatello, then head west on I86.  There has to be a fire somewhere as it is just too hazy.  But there are permanent signs on the freeway about reduced visibility.   Who knows… 

We weren’t on the road long when we saw a sign for Massacre Rocks State Park.  It is only 2:30 and we haven’t been on the road long as we got a late start.  But it is a Friday, and it could get busy, and State Parks rock.  It is a small park along the Snake River.  There is one site suitable for us and it is unlevel big time.  It took us 4 blocks to level off, and our stairs could be dangerous, they are so high.  But we have a beautiful view of the river.  We have electricity and water.  This will be nice.

Massacre Rocks was part of the Oregon Trail. It received its name from wagon party skirmishes with the Native Americans that occurred in the area.  There are many large rocks in the park that have some significance.  If we had a level spot, we would disconnect and check things our more thoroughly.  We know better than to disconnect being this unlevel.

We did take many of the walking trails through the area.  They offer spectacular views of the river.




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