On Our Way

After an extra long tax season that saw me working up until 3:30 Monday, we are finally off on our adventure.  Dave, Simon and I are taking a leisurely tour of Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce National Parks.  But first we are stopping in Salt Lake City to visit Dave's beautiful kids and grandkids.  So today we headed out on Highway 140.

We waved good bye to Mt. Mick (McLoughlon) and headed east to our first stop

in Lakeview, OR.  I always love a town that beautifies it's water storage devices.

To be specific, we are over-nighting at the county fairgrounds rv park.

This guy is all over Lakeview.

We ran into him at Safeway too.

Turns out he's got a dark side....

We sampled the local fare.  In this case we were craving burgers and beer.
Apparently that left us with Papa Dan's at the bowling alley.
An excellent bowling burger I must say.  Simon enjoyed his immensely.

We found a very cool rock outside of Booner.

Dave of course had to have fun with it....

Definitely a no-frills park here.  But after being in the usual close quarters
at most rv parks, the wide-open space was kinda nice.  We put out the awning,
set out the chairs, popped the tops on a couple of coldies, turned on some tunes
and waited for some armadillos to walk by.  Not that there are any armadillos in Lakeview,
but the whole scene reminded us a bit of Tin Cup.

And there's a cool exhibit of old farming and mining equipment right next to the park.

We had fun checking that stuff out.

All in all a good start to our adventure and excellent first day of vacation.