Hot is the best way to describe the last few days. As many will know it has been unseasonably warm in central Oregon. With high in the low 90's, we made a decision late yesterday to leave to try to find cooler weather once again. It also helped that there was a fire that they started fighting two days ago just north of Sisters, OR, which was the town we were near.

So last night around 9pm, we pulled into Ray Benson Sno-Park. Which so far, I think is the largest Sno-Park we have seen in Oregon. I have to say the ability to use the Sno-Parks without permit in the summer for RV camping has been a real lifesaver for us. They have allowed us to do a few quick overnight or over-the-weekend stops easily.

I hope the wife is feeling better when she gets up this morning. She was just not feeling well. I think she over did yesterday with the heat, the smoke/haze, and not eating much. At least I hope that is all it was. I will find out more when she gets up later this morning.

It has been quite a week, mostly without cell service. We are still talking about getting a backup hotspot, but the earliest that will happen is next Month. At least we are currently in a good spot for cell and I can work.

We left the location La Pine on Friday July 2, our Boondockers Welcome host were great. I do no think we would have survived the week without the 30amp power they provided us for free. The RV AC got a bit of work out because of the heat. After we left we headed to La Pine State Park to dump the grey and black tanks. It was a little further than we thought but it was worth it in the end.

After dumping, we proceeded to the Mount Bachelor area. We looked at a few different spot along the way. While I was going to be on vacation, it would have still been nice to find a place that had cell signal. It really was not to be. With it being July 4th weekend, a lot of places were full. One place we went to that was listed as a campsite on Free Campsites, when we got there had signs no camping and we did not see any of the campsites that people said were there anyways. We stopped at three different Sno-Parks as well. Out of those only one of them had cell signal for T-mobile. We did not stay at that location. There was quite a few people there and the treeline was basically a bunch of young trees, so it was a little depressing. We ended up at one down the road, the Swampy Lakes Sno-Park.

On July 3, we decided to scout around the area. So we detached and took the truck around to several roads we wanted to explore. Seems the number of free camping spots has really gone down. some of the locations we tried to go were either blocked off or marked as no motorized traffic (which is sort of odd because it clearly had heavy usage from vehicles. After spending most of the afternoon looking, we find a new spot at 43.98935,-121.43957 to go move the RV.

We spent July 4 through the July 6 at that spot. On July 7, we decided to move on and find a place near Sisters that the wife had scouted on an earlier trip. We made a new stop at the La Pine State Park to dump again and then made some stops to resupply before heading there. It took us a while but we did finally find a spot about 830pm (thankfully the sunsets at 930pm right now) at 44.26595,-121.53693

Well it has certainly been a while since my last post. The quick reason is Internet has been spotty for work this week. The long reason follows.

On June 25, we went up towards Paulina Lake here in Oregon. It is funny but unlike the areas around Flagstaff, there were not many camping sites in the National Forest. We ended up at the 10 Mile Snow-Park, where we just parked the camper in the shade all weekend. It was pretty hot all weekend too. Heck it has been unusually hot here in the Northwest period. They are seeing 95+ weather right now. It is cool in the morning and late night but from 1pm to 7pm, it's pretty hot. Needless to say we stayed here because we needed to. We didn't get any TV signal but we surprisingly found enough cell signal that we were able to watch Netflix one night.

On Sunday June 27, We moved to out next Boondockers Welcome location in La Pine, Oregon. It a nice place with nice folks. They supply water and 30 Amp electrical, which was good because we needed to finally run the AC in the RV. From that perspective, it has been the best choice of locations so far. Where things fall down has been the Cell Signal side of the house. To get some work done, I found a location outside on the property where I can get just enough signal to work in the morning, in the afternoon I have been driving into town to go the library to work. The library does have WiFi but I found that the hotspot works better for what I do. Still at the campsite, spotty coverage. Which has been driving the wife crazy. We are still undecided on which provider to get the backup hotspot from. If Verizon was not so pricey, it would be an easy choice.

My work location in La Pine.

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At any rate, we will be leaving tomorrow, and heading out towards cooler weather if we can find it. I've taken some days off that when combined with the July 4th holiday means I do not have to go back to work until Thursday July 8th. And that means that We can go places that we do not need Internet when we get there(although I hope at at least one or two places do have some).