Dianne and Frank Gruelle arrived Thursday afternoon, the 19. The Gruelle's are fellow "Boomers" and they had graciously responded to our request for someone to take care of our house, yard and garden while we are gone. Our destination this trip is Washington D.C. and some of the Eastern Seaboard. After a quick orientation, happy hour, and dinner the next morning we finished loading our rig and headed east.
Our driveway looked like an RV Park.Our first stop was Baker City, 310 miles east of Canby. Eleanor greeted us at the door and helped off load the supplies we had picked up at Costco for her.
Herman had the martinis mixed and after dinner we sat down and shared stories and updates on each other's families.
Leaving Baker City early the next morning, we arrived in Twin Falls, Idaho, about lunch time. We stopped at the visitor's center just off the end of the bridge over the Snake River and discovered the sky divers packing their chutes, getting ready to dive off the bridge.
This promised to be an event to see so we had lunch and hung around to see what would happen. The host in the visitor's center told us that the record so far is 21 simultaneous jumpers.
The group we watched jumped one at a time and all made it safely to the landing zone below.
About 5 miles upstream from the bridge is Shoshone Falls. We stopped here for our 2 mile power walk. We have committed to continue our exercise routine on this trip.
Three hundred miles east of Baker City got us to our site for the night. We discovered a secluded spot behind an abandoned grain elevator in the little town of Malta, Idaho. We were working our way along State Highway 81 east of Burley and had just about given up and were about to turn back to the freeway which was 10 miles east of us when we found this spot. We even have our own air conditioned restroom that we don't have to share with anyone. 
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