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September 28   Sunday:   Emigrant Springs State Park,  Meacham, Oregon    121 miles

On our first morning we woke somewhat early at 7:45 AM to cloudy skies and cold temperatures.  This morning we continued south along I-84, stopping in La Grande for our first stop at Safeway to get a few supplies, then we were on to Baker where we made a quick stop for lunch at Subway as our stomachs were complaining from not having breakfast this morning.   

       It was still early, around 1:00 PM when we arrived at our favorite campground, Farewell Bend State Park along the Snake River.   We had thought about continuing onto Idaho, but quickly dismissed those thoughts when we remembered we would lose an hour in Idaho.  One time zone fact here is how the park is located in the Mountain time zone and then a few miles south pass this park, the time is back to Pacific time zone and then again east across the Snake River in Idaho changes back to the Mountain time zone, a pretty crocked time zone line.

       Was good too just relax and have some spare ribs for dinner as we viewed the Snake River flowing below us and the dry Idaho hills across the river changing colors as the sunset turned to night.

September 29   Monday:   Farewell Bend State Park, Oregon       279 Miles

        The rain caught up with us sometime in the night, at times falling pretty hard, but it's so great to sleep in.  Was still raining in the morning, a bit cold and dark. We had breakfast, packed up and left for a long day of wet driving all on the interstate.  The sun did try to break through the cloud cover every once in a while, but the clouds usually won.  This was a day of interstate driving over some pretty flat barren southern Idaho countryside, taking us clear across the state to the Massacre Rock State Park on the eastern side of the state.  We have stayed here before camping and found the park equally enjoyable from our site high up  on the cliffs overlooking a fantastic view of the Snake River.

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September 27   Saturday: Washougal, Washington     221 miles

Our fall trip started in Washougal with the grandkids.  Came on down to watch our cousin Tiana Reynolds ( Sam and Sis grandchild) play volleyball.  She plays for Chehalis College in Chehalis, Washington and her team was playing Clark College in Vancouver where our grandson and granddaughter attend college.  

That was Friday, yesterday night, and early this morning, Saturday we were off 

to Portland where our other granddaughter Jazzy was running cross-country at Portland Meadows. 

 ran around the massive meadows 

horse acing grounds.  Nice challenging course where Jazzy ran a good race f

inishing 53rd out of some 190 runners.  The race was at 8:30 AM and by 11:30 AM we were headed east up along the Columbia River.

along I-84 pass the Dalles, 

when an ambulance flew by us  and suddenly a few miles ahead on the interstate, 

we came to a sudden stop and sat there for 45 minutes before moving at a  

snails pace again.  We crawled for several miles 

merging from two lanes, to one lane around an over turned semi-truck,  still 

control or fell asleep and slid into a ditch, turning over and catching fire, is my guess.  I 

won’t speculate about the driver, just hope he got out, because the cab and trailer were smashed, 

charred black and melted from the fire.  There were boxes of cooked apples all over the road and in the ditch.        

           
Not the best way to start our travels, but on a short brighter note, the skies did clear up in Eastern Oregon for a short stretch before the clouds reappeared as we climbed into the Blue 

Mountains just a few miles pass Pendleton.  That night we stayed at Emigrant Springs State Park for our first night of camping on this trip.