Our journey home - Oregon to Ohio

After enjoying the lush green land and beautiful water scenes of western Oregon we headed east through the dry mountains of eastern Oregon and Idaho. The landscape was brown except in areas that were irrigated.

We passed many cattle and horse ranches and lots of wide open spaces. When we traveled through Wyoming we passed through the Rocky Mountains and crossed the continental divide at 7000ft. We climbed to the highest point on I 80 at 8640 and dropped back down. Dan's famous saying became, "Here we go again" up the hills and down the hills. The RV did quite well. We didn't speed up the mountains, but we made it! We passed the huge statue of Lincoln that we remembered from the trip west.

The campground where we stopped in eastern Wyoming was a ranch with lots of animals including bison, horses, cattle, llamas, and camels. We were quite astonished and took a double take when we drove past them.

We never did find out why they were there, but during the summer they had lots of activities for families so that must have been part of it.

The rest of the trip through Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio was uneventful. The breadbasket of America was very dry, but there were lots and lots of cornfields and hay fields. One object that we saw over and over again was the windmill. I never did get a really good picture but this one gives you the idea.

As we drove along we passed many large trucks transporting the windmill turbines. When we stopped at a rest area we got a close up look at them. They are really BIG!

From Oregon to Ohio we logged 2435 miles in seven days. We took our time and traveled between 300 and 400 miles a day depending on campground availability. The weather cooperated, and the only rain we experienced was at night. So now we are spending time with son Dan, Kelly, Mitch, Lacey, and Matt in Ohio and plan to visit friends in PA. We'll leave next week for South Carolina to see Donna and Doug and families.