Travel day! Long day, too, as it’s the reverse of what we did getting to Bend. Not looking forward to it.

Well, it wasn’t TOO bad, I made a few quick stretch stops, mostly to get rid of excess water. That’s one of the advantages of towing a travel trailer – wherever you go, you have a bathroom! Well, yes, but you can’t always use it, as I found out today. I put a lot of stuff on the floor in the bedroom, which is the bathroom access while all collapsed for travel, as the rear slide keeps you from going forward into the bathroom, especially with the two road bikes there. But that was not the problem. The problem was that the sliding door between the bedroom and bath was not latched open, and so it closed wile driving – which is why it has a latch to hold it open. No big deal, that’s happened before, and it kind of jams itself shut to keep from damaging itself, you just have to lift it and scoot it at the same time, and voila – it’s open. Unless what you had leaning against it on the other side falls behind it … which is what happened. So – the door would not open more than a couple of inches, not far enough for me to get an arm in there to try and dislodge the offending item. Well, we were in the middle of nowhere, and, being a guy, not really a problem, so I just went back outside and watered some roadside flora. Deal with it later.

What WAS weird is the haze in the air. When we drove up almost a week ago, the air was crystal clear – something we seldom saw last year because of all the fires, but this year there have been very few fires, so we’ve had clear air. Very nice! But not today – but it didn’t look like smoke, nor smell of it. Best guess is now everyone is cultivating their fields, so it’s probably dust that they kick up when they do that. Here’s what it looked like, if you can tell:

Anyway, stopped back at the Apple Peddler for lunch and had a very good burger, then continued. Some time later, nature called again, and there was more traffic, so I figured better to just open the door to the bathroom and do the right thing … or do the thing right, so to speak. Got in there and started shoving on the door, and the box behind it (I could see what it was – it was the scale we keep there in its box). I REALLY needed the facilities, so I kept pushing, and finally got the door open enough to get my head in there and get a good look. Not the brightest of ideas. I had shoved on the door and popped my head in, and of course, the door came back closed a bit. Didn’t strangle me, but my head was not going to come back out! Long story short, push, heave, shove, and our scale needs a new box now, but I GOT INTO THE BATHROOM. Whew!

Anyway – after that, got into the KoA, parked the rig, and went out to get a fews supplies, fill up the truck, and grab some dinner. While out shopping, I saw this:

Really? Cappuccino flavored potato chips? That is just ALL KINDS of wrong! If anyone is brave enough to try them, let me know how they are, I’m curious, but not enough to spend my hard-earned cash on them!

So, that was the day – long and tiring, but just a prelude for tomorrow, where we go another full day, to Salt Lake City, UT. Even further than today, but mostly Interstate, so should be quicker. I hope so – today was long enough!