Mike and Pat

Mike and Pat
Us with Maximus our dog and Socrates one of our cats is in the background

Friday, July 3, 2015

July 1, 2015 Day at camp and then a jetboat ride on the Rogue River--will add pictures when I have better service

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

There has been no internet service so posting of this blog has been impossible so I write the blog and when we get service I will put the pictures to the blog and post.  I think that this has been the longest so far.  Our next purchase is going to be a laptop so we can go into town and do what we have to on the internet.  Sometimes it isn’t a bad thing to be without electronics for a little while.  You do realize just how dependent we have become on our little toys. 

Had an awful thought this morning Jeff and Amy will be leaving us at the end of the month.  We have thoroughly enjoyed their companionship that we are going to miss them a lot.  This is one adventure that without them it wouldn’t be as memorable.   It has been 6 weeks since they have joined us and it has been almost 14 weeks since we have started this journey.  It is hard to believe that we have been gone for that long. 

Boys made it back but again no luck.  They each had caught some kind of fish but it was too small so back it went.  They did some more research and made a trip to Walmart to get just a few things and tomorrow they are going up the road about 1 ½ hours to see if they can bring home dinner,  If not we are having frozen tilapia.

The temperature was hot and we saw that it had reached 109 degrees just before we took are trip down the river.  There were 5 jetboats with about 45 people in each.  As soon as the boat got moving we were all much better.  We did get pretty wet with the sudden stops and spinning 360 degrees.  Other boats splashed us too but we did dry off kind of fast.  It was a 18 mile ride down the Rogue River.  There was plenty to see.  We saw deer, ospreys, canadian geese, wild turkey and we even saw a mink running along the shore.  Some of the houses along the shore were very nice.  We rode through the canyon and then made our way to the OK Corrral.  This was a beautiful log structure.  Everyone enjoyed their meal and the guys loved that the beer never stopped coming to the table.  They even had a cobbler made of Marion berries and whipped cream.  They are a type of blackberry cultivated in Western Oregon.  It was pretty good.   We were all pretty stuffed when we left for our ride back down the river.  We did some more spins, raced the other boats and just had a good time on the river.  We did get our money’s worth out of the adventure. 

We said our goodbyes as the boys had to get up real early for their last day of fishing here tomorrow.  I hope that each of them would catch just one.

One of the jetboats

Hellgate Canyon

OK Corral Wagon

OK Corral

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