We drove our coach 196 miles, about 4 hours of driving (plus a couple of hours of waiting), from Caldwell, Idaho to Dayville, Oregon. It felt really good to be back in Oregon!

The map route, heading northwest:

Leaving the RV park:

Roadworks:

Paladin’s expression seems to say “a travel day AGAIN?!”; we feel that; three days in a row was a bit much; we plan to avoid that in the future:

Happy enough sitting on the back of my chair:

Crossing Snake River from Idaho into Oregon:

Welcome to Oregon:

We stopped at the rest area just after entering Oregon:

Check out time of the RV park was 11:00 MDT, check in time at the next destination was 16:00 PDT (unusually late), and travel time was about 4 hours, so we needed to wait a couple of hours. So we hung out at the rest area:

We had a super-classy lunch of hotdog buns with bologna and American cheese:

Our coach and truck:

We also visited the welcome center and wandered around the rather nice grounds:

Flowering prickly pear cacti; probably the last we’ll see of those for a few months (other than the one we have in our coach):

Oregon Trail info:

Then back on the road; nice Oregon bridge artwork:

Love’s diesel and DEF stop; $6.419 for diesel is rather a lot, though we paid less, thanks to a fuel discount card:

Turn to Bend:

Barn:

We followed this haymaker for a while:

And discovered a new dash indicator: after following that farm equipment with our hazard lights on, a “Check Info” light came on the dash, with a message on the display saying “Turn Signal On”. Apparently that appears if you drive more than a mile with a turn signal on, as a reminder for people who (somehow?!) don’t notice leaving it on. The message can be dismissing by hitting a button:

Hills:

Old building:

Fun fact: there is a portion of Oregon that uses Mountain time. So we entered the Pacific time zone further into the state:

A pleasant lakeside stop:

Our coach and truck:

A picturesque lake (actually Murray Reservoir):

Our truck and coach:

Back on the highway:

Sleepy Paladin:

Nice hills:

An idyllic meadow; this is the kind of place we could see ourselves settling down one day (for at least half the year):

Log building:

Mountains:

A wagon by a viewpoint:

Prairie City:

Cute little purple flowers:

I seemed to be a barn-pics mood:

The town of John Day:

Hills and John Day River:

Welcome to Dayville, “our fossils are friendly”:

Our destination, Fish House Inn and RV Park:

We drove our coach 188 miles, about 3 hours, from Declo, Idaho to Caldwell, Idaho.

The map route, heading northwest:

Leaving the RV park:

Paladin:

I-84:

My devices: iPad with RV gauges, tire pressure monitor, Mac with map, and iPhone with navigation:

Rest area stop:

Paladin:

Snake River:

We saw several wind turbine blades on trucks, plus these ones on the side of the road:

Another rest area stop:

Paladin:

Triple trailer truck:

Our destination:

We drove our coach 219 miles, about 4 hours, from Heber City, Utah to Declo, Idaho.

The map route, heading northwest:

Leaving Heber City:

We planned to stop for fuel in Salt Lake City, so I left the step cover open. Paladin took advantage of that to look out the lower window:

Roadworks:

US-40 freeway:

Paladin in his safe space:

I-80:

Paladin on the steps again:

Exit to Love’s for fuel:

Onto I-215:

And I-15 (with a triple trailer truck merging):

Paladin again:

One nice thing about interstate freeway travel is rest areas. We stopped at one for lunch:

Paladin on the back of my chair:

Scenic hills by I-84:

Goodbye Utah, welcome to Idaho:

Another rest area stop:

Continuing on I-84:

Sleepy Paladin; he’s definitely getting more comfortable with travel days:

Exit to Declo:

Our destination RV park was right off the freeway: