June 21st 2018 Crater lake and Diamond lake. As Crater lake is a fairly small park ( 33 miles circumference) it is easy to do in a few hours, so we could afford a later start than the last couple of days Crater lake, is an old volcano, whose caldera collapsed in 7,700 years ago and a lake formed. It is approximately 2000 feet deep at the deepest point and is the deepest lake in the USA, and the 6th deepest in the world. The walls of the caldera rise 1000 fee...

June 20th 2018 Idaho to Oregon Again another early start, as we had an approximate 7 hour drive to our camp for 2 nights in Oregon, at Diamond lake near the Crater Lake national park. We set off and the drive was similar at the start to yesterday’s, as we passed through Idaho. Once we crossed over into Oregon, we lost an hour ( Mountain time changed to Pacific time) but the scenery became less green and the horizon seemed much closer, less plain more rugge...

June 19th 2018 Victor Idaho to Boise Idaho We got up early as we had a long day travelling to Boise, Idaho, our next stop. After a quick breakfast, we hitched up the RV and were off by about 8.30 am. We traveled past field after field of potatoes, corn, soft fruits , lettuces, kale and onions, through vast plains either side of straight roads. At about 1.30, we stopped at a National monument, called Craters of the moon, which is a vast lava field surroundin...

June 18th 2018 Tetons national park part 2 ‘Grizzlys’! After a quick breakfast, we drove back towards the Tetons national park, returning over the mountain pass where we had the experience with the hail the day before. This time there were no issues, aside from a little low cloud. Our intention for the day was to visit the cable car at Jackson Hole, which was at Teton village, and if we could then take a boat tour on Jackson lake. We drove into the par...

17 June 2018 Victor, Idaho. We packed the last its and pieces into the RV and closed the slide sides in and hitched it up to the truck. (Jef and I had installed the hitch point into the Ram Truck the day before. We set off towards the campgounds in Victor, Idaho, - our home for the next two nights. On arrival about 1.30pm, we did everything in reverse and unpacked the RV After that was done, we got our hiking gear in order, and jumped back in the truck to ...