Day 2: Mountains Suck

I woke up to flies after a really good sleep. Coffee first.

My husband came up with an excellent solution for the flies. He has a very powerful mini shop-vac and between the two of us we sucked up a significant portion of the flies. It will probably take a couple days of sucking to get them all – but it helped solve that problem.

My husband took the overflow tank off and washed it and dried it thoroughly. Then he put on more clear gorilla tape – a much better and secure job than before. But he couldn't get the radiator cap off – try as he might. I continued praying for him and after a couple hours – a man came along and was able to get it off. Angel? Maybe. Lol – I don't know but my husband was finally able to put in new radiator fluid and we were able to hit the road again.

It was later in the day when we truly appreciated God's timing with the first tape job failing like it did. Where we had a place to work on it, get a good night's sleep, (have excellent wifi!), and repair the radiator and overflow tank. Because the next leg of the trip was unexpected and we never would have made it.

Steep mountain roads with curves that go on forever. Miles and miles of low grade mountains that were overheating the long haul trucks and other RV's. We had to pull over several times to let the engine cool down. We realized how very stranded we could have been on a side of a mountain with no way back down – only up, up, up. We had breakfast at one of the cool down spots, so thankful there was no leaks and that God made sure we were not stranded on the side of a mountain. He is so awesome!

We hit Mountain time before we hit the Idaho border. It was now an hour later and we were starting to feel it. Finally we were in Idaho. Buh-bye Oregon – won't be missing you! We started looking for a place to stay for the night. We passed two RV park signs on the interstate but we weren't able to get over to take the exit. It was getting late so I said, “I think we should stop in Mountain Home no matter what.”

As we got near Mountain Home one of the road signs said, “Mountain Home RV Resort”. We thought – yes! Finally. We took the exit and drove through the main part of town. No signs saying RV Resort and no RV resort. We started to realize that we were now on a strange road and started looking for a place to turn around. There was no place to turn around. Understand that with the tow dolly pulling our car we were now over 55-60 feet long. You need a lot of room to turn something like that around. So we kept on the road we were on and then we started laughing. This road took us right back to I-84 East. I guess we wont be staying in Mountain Home after all.

The next town we found a great little RV park with a pull-through spot, green grass for the dog and again excellent wifi! Plus it cost half as much to stay than the place we stayed the night before (which was not very expensive in the first place). It ended up being an excellent day. Thank you Lord!