Mountain Home AFB

This is our second night at the Mountain Home Air Force Base family campground in Idaho. From Rawlins, we drove to Brigham City, Utah, and stayed at a very fancy KOA campground near the Great Salt Lake. We stayed one night and then drove to Mountain Home AFB.

Today, we both got haircuts and then stocked up on commissary staples for our Oregon stay. We don't have much refrigerator or cooler space, so mostly things that are shelf stable were on the list. There is a grocery store in Burns, OR, about 30 minutes from the refuge where we can get our fresh foods each week.

It is about a 270-mile drive tomorrow. We would like to arrive at the refuge before 4 pm as our boss, Jill, will be working at the bookstore until then. If we don't catch her, we are to show up for work Friday morning at 7:45 am. for orientation.

It has been a long trip. We have had a learning curve with setting up the camper. Some screws were stripped on a bracket for the pole that helps us lift the roof. We tried several different fixes and hope this last one will do the trick with construction adhesive, gluing everything, including the screws solidly in place and curing a couple of days.

The weather is warm in the 80's and windy out on the high desert near the Snake River at the AFB. We are in Mountain Daylight time now and will be in Pacific Daylight Time tomorrow. Humidity is about 18% compared to a much more humid springtime in Missouri. We've watched the fighter jets taking off, maneuvering, and landing. We've seen different birds as well. Quail, a big magpie, a yellow-breasted king bird, and some summer tanangers.Read more