Our 2015 Arizona Trip

Well we left  Washington on  January  16th headed  towards sunny  Arizona and meet up with our  friends Kelly  Brook Allen , Ron Stolp and Alan Gillman.
We left on a  wet cold morning and stopped  in Lagrande Oregon at the  Fairgrounds the  first  night.

 it was  really  cold  and sleeting when we  arrived  but we  found stalls for our mules Rita  and Maude and settled in for a  nice dinner.
     The next  morning we thought  that We'd get  up early and hit  the  road. On the  way  we  started hearing Chatter that  there  had been a wreck at  mile post  318 on the  I-84 East  bound. The  freeway  was  temporarily closed at Baker City. Luckily  we  slept in a  bit  that  morning and was a 1/2  hour  behind the wreck. We went in to the  truck stop at Baker  City and had breakfast  and tried to find out when the  Freeway  was  going to be  opened again. They said that  there was possible fatalities. And that there were 15-20 Semi trucks  tangled up and possibly 50 passenger vehicles  in the  mess. The  cause was dense freezing fog and black ice.
     The freeway was closed from 5:30 am until 10pm that  night while they worked  to oclear the  2 eastbound lanes of the  crash debris. We decided  to go back to Lagrande and spend another  night there  and let any  traffic clear  out  so we  would be  tied up in another traffic mess with people trying to get through.

                         Trucks  waiting at a  freeway  ramp in Lagrande  for the  freeway to reopen.

Our  next stop was  for lunch at  the Twin Falls Fairgrounds. We  let  the mules  out for a  romp in their arena and we  loaded up, fueled and made the long haul to Alamo Nevada.