Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 – Travel Day to Whitefish Horse Camp in Deschutes National Forest

Got out early this morning, as I wanted to get to Whitefish fairly early in the day, but, of course, the best laid plans... Our first stop was at the Salem Post Office, where supposedly I had a contract waiting for me at the General Delivery there, but no one could find it, even though it had been sent a week ago. One clerk there was kind enough to take my phone number and call me if they get it, and I gave her the address of the next post office to where we would be going, Crescent, OR. That killed an hour. Since that was just up the road from a Walmart, we decided to get our shopping done now rather than later, that killed almost another hour. Then we stopped at Camping World north of Eugene to dump and ask about parts, that was another 30 minutes gone. One final stop at a 76 station, where my credit card stopped working after it's second run-through (because of the station's system, not my CC), and then it wouldn't take my bank debit card for some unknown reason, and despite phone calls to both, it was all centered on the station's system, not my cards. We ended up having to pay cash for the final tank of generator gas (thank goodness it was only 5 gallons), before we hit the road, having wasted almost another hour, swearing I'd never stop at a 76 station again (which I hadn't done for decades anyway, but this clinched it, again). So by the time we finally got to Whitefish, it was after 3:00, almost two hours behind my estimated schedule. We found our spot, which was large enough, but not exactly level, so we had to put some boards under the back truck tires to get some semblance of being level. Hubby wasn't able to get the satellite dish set up because of the trees, so he was a less than happy camper, he gets pretty frustrated when he can't figure these things out. We also spent a lot of time transferring water, because the spigots here are the kind with a spring handle and no threads, so we had to get out the bungies, the sump pump, and the rain barrels, and spent another hour plus to fill those up, as well as the RV, so that we would be good with water for at least 4-5 days (unless I do laundry, which I'll probably wait until later in the week to do). In any event, we were finally ready to settle down, had a cocktail and watched some things we had previously recorded, with the horses all settled into a couple of pipe corrals side by side.