Sisters to Lebanon OR

We are in two minds to stay here at Indian Ford another day or to head west, closer to Lebanon where we need to be tomorrow morning.  The decision is made as we hear a fire spotting aircraft circling overhead.  No smoke yet, but they are looking over our very wooded campground.  We pack up and are on the road by 11.45 am and a nice drive it is too.  Until we go walk about (not the GPS’s fault this time, nor ours).  We are 17 miles into Hwy 20 before we see the first ‘road closed ahead’ sign.  We see a second warning, funnily enough entitled ‘second warning - road closed two miles ahead’.  Surely there will be a detour in place before we get there, although our apps aren’t showing any options!  Well we are this far along we might as well see if we can scoot by the closed road, whatever it is.  Nope, there are two cars, which we had let pass us, and a fifth wheel unit stopped at the road closure which is due to a bridge out.  The workers said there was supposed to be a sign at the main junction but we didn’t see it and neither did the other 20 or so people who were driving towards it as we were heading back. 

Road closed 17 miles in

So that added another 60 miles to our 60 miles trip today.  Glad we came today rather than tomorrow when we need to be somewhere in the morning.  It was a pleasant drive though, very scenic, trees, hills, rivers, lots of camping sites, blue sky and sunshine.  There were a couple of Christmas Tree plantations too, the nice triangle shaped ones you see in the movies.

We need diesel much sooner rather than too much later now so divert a mile or two as per Gas Buddy’s recommendation for $2.39/G at Shell Springfield.  We verified the price at this station on the app too, so now 'Kiwikim' is famous on Gas Buddy in the big ole US of A.

Next stop is Waterloo Campground where we stayed the last time before going to Ray Jackman for the hydraulic hose coupling repair. Feels liked home!  Found a nice spot in the shade, at 31C it’s too hot to sit in the sun and set up camp for the night.  Next to us is a converted US yellow school bus, which is really cool. Space is obviously limited inside because the hubby is up on the roof every 10 minutes getting something down or putting something away.  Then.... we see it has a crane to lift stuff on and off the roof.  Now it is super cool!!

School bus with a crane!!

We skipped lunch as we often do when breakfast is after 10.30 am, so a coffee, an apple and a muesli bar enroute is not really enough sustenance.  So nibbles are rather plentiful once we arrive and now it is dinner time.  We are only on 30 amp here so prefer to use the power for cooling rather than the oven, so we’re cooking outside tonight in our trusty electric frypan  : )