June 16, Walmart Parking Lot!

Wish we'd known that the International Association of Fiddle players was going to be in Ontario, Oregon, and take up all the RV spots! There must be 8 other RV's parked in the Walmart parking lot here!Along with assorted homeless that seem to be living in their car and parking here. They periodically walk over to the convenience store to use the bathroom, I guess. It is sad. I wonder how long this event is going on? We will need to stay some place tomorrow, just about 35 miles down the road.

This morning, we left Vale. The scent of the cattle feed lot was wafting through the air. And it was fairly cool and breezy. I understand that it may hit close to 100 degrees here next week. I thought only Texas had weather that can change that quickly, but apparently not!

Jeff ran backwards to the spot that he finished yesterday. Unfortunately, that meant running into a cool headwind, instead of having the wind to his back. That may become a problem. I could always make myself get up earlier and leave with him. Hmmm.....

After doing a load of towels, since the laundry was so busy last night, I drove through the town of Vale, and took some pictures. It seems that they have a ton of wall murals, all over the town. They are of frontier scenes. It is pretty amazing. They actually have a league of murals or something like that. At the Dairy Queen, there is a map of where they all are and what they are about. Jeff got a pic of the map, while taking a pic of the DQ Lunch Special sign! But here are some of the murals pics that I took.

They have a mural society that organized all this. They are really quite remarkable! A real treasure.

Vale is a sleepy little town with a lot of commerce closed down in the downtown area. However, there is a lot of history here. The Oregon Trail, of course, came through here. I cannot imagine what life was like for those folks!

The road to the next town was tough, too. Not very many wide spots, but lots more traffic. And apparently this is the onion capital!

They also really revere their John Deer tractors! We saw several that had been put on a pedestal, and a couple of interesting mail boxes. Have I mentioned Jeff's love of taking pics of weird mail boxes? Well, here are a couple from today.