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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