Day 63 Wednesday April 19

We got up to nice sun – still, after all, we’re in California.  All packed up & ready to roll & left Williams @ 9:45, 46525 miles.  We took a rest stop break, 12:15 – 12:25, to put on long pants & long sleeve shirts. We are approaching the Siskiyou mountain pass & it is getting higher, (summit is 4310 feet), & colder. Into Oregon at 1:20 PM, then down the mountain and to our gas stop at a Pilot Station at Center Point 33 miles from the OR/CA border. Going up & over the Siskiyou pass is easier going south to north than going north to south because from the south you are already up at around 3 thousand feet and only have to go up a thousand or so whereas from the north you have a lot of slow climbing to do. Into the gas station at 2:00 @ 46750 miles & out @ 2:10.  Off up the hwy to Seven Feathers Casino, arriving at 3:25 @ 46816 miles.  We are here for the night as there is no other suitable, i.e. cheap or free, place within 2 to 3 hours drive.  One good thing is that they have a Mon, Tues, Wed buffet special from 4 PM to 10 PM for $5.00 off with a Players card so it is only $7.99 and tonight is Cowboy BBQ. The ribs were not as good as expected but rest of food was good—esp. the bread pudding and their Huckleberry ice cream.  I returned to the RV while Sheila stayed to gamble.  Today is Ladies Night. She got $10.00 in free play & took out $30.00! She returned just after 7 to tell me about it.  We went back to the casino about 9, to hear the live band in the lounge beside the buffet that was playing from 7- 11 tonight.  It was much too loud for Sheila so she went off to video poker while I settled in their nice soft plush arm chair to listen.  She returned about 10:15 having ‘returned’ some of the money she’d won to the casino so we came back to the RV for an early night and hopefully an early start tomorrow. I want to make Tulalip Casino so it is a short hop home on Friday, we shall see what happens. By the way you’ll all be happy to know that we’re having sprinkles of rain at the Casino here in Oregon.

Distance Covered 291 miles - - 5 hrs 20 min on the road – same time as yesterday but 14 less miles. 

It is early Thursday and we are going to try to make Tulalip casino from 7 Feathers. I know there is no WiFi at Tulalip. See you soon