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There is a state campground on the Washington coast that has RVs on one side of the road and tent sites with a parking spot for each tent site. We, in our Hallmark pop up, stayed at the tent site. It was on the water side of the campground for easier access to ocean. We don’t like to stay at RV...

Oh, forgot link to my album: https://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/gallery/album/1618-5-week-trip-id-ut-mt-nv-or-wa/

I haven’t posted for awhile as husband had prostate cancer, the aggressive type so we were stranded at home for 15 months. The radiation treatment plus drugs took a toll so guys, please take it seriously. We left the Thursday after Labor Day and returned October 15. Looking back, it wasn’t...

We always stop at Diablo Vista for the view and vault toilets. One of the prettiest places on the planet. There was a bit more snow from 5 weeks ago which is hopefully putting out that fire.

Heading west along the North Cascades Highway starting that long switchback to Rainy Pass. Liberty Bell Mountain is the prominent feature here. You can see a ribbon of larch about halfway up.

Our last campground for this trip. It is usually our campground of choice either heading out or return: Klipchuck, a USFS facility in the Okanagan National Forest. The sites are spacious, vault toilets clean and the pine scent lovely.

You can still see the burned areas of the Carlton Complex fire of a few years ago on 163 between Pateros and Twisp.

We stayed at Osborne Bay campground on the opposite side of our stay earlier in the trip. Thus is a more primitive part of Steamboat Rock state park just south of Electric City off Highway 155. We were the only ones that night.

Lakeview Ranch just north of Odessa, WA. This was a spur gravel road off Highway 21. There is a campground nearby.

Harvested wheat fields near Prescott, WA. Lots of winding roads through endless wheat fields.

We meandered our way via gravel and obscure paved roads into Washington. We stopped at this historical marker commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition April 30, 1806 campsite.

Our campsite at Ukiah Dale state forest along the Camas Creek. Flush toilets, water, camp host spot. Some highway noise but not at night. We camped by the creek.

South of Ukiah, still on 395, the road follows Camas Creek, a very scenic stretch of the highway. There are a few places to pull off to take photos or just listen to the creek.

Highway 395 continues from Burns north to and through Washington. It doesn’t have a lot of traffic excepting locals, hunters and logging. It is very scenic, especially Devine Canyon just north of Burns. We stayed at the Starr skimobile lot as the campground was crowded and felt closed in.

We headed north on 140, 292 and 202 to Oregon stopping at Fields for fuel. Wow! $7.25 a gallon so we just topped off until Burns. In this area near Malheur NWR, we always camp at the Page Springs Campground. There are clean vault toilets and spacious sites. Plus, our dog’s namesake river runs...

One of the ranches at the small ranching communities nearby. There is a lithium mine proposed in the nearby mountains which will be using lots of water which is already overallocated. There is a coalition between environmentalists and the ranchers plus several tribes to fight this.

Just a few agates or more accurately, chalcedony, from our first day including a carnelian, the reddish one. I found our biggest here a few days later, 4”x3”. We stayed here 3 days and the weather did clear up after the beautiful thunder clouds.

Home at last, our favorite agate area. We are always alone here except for some rancher traffic. It is so quiet here and the skies so dark. The Milky Way streaks overhead and the Big Dipper feels like you could reach out and touch it. And, we never leave without bags of agates. Beware of...

Just another Nevada gravel road in ranch country. This one was a bit colorful than others. We travelled from Beowawe exit to Winnemucca spending the night high above the freeway on BLM land. There aren’t too many campgrounds so the public land was welcome. It was near a canyon we wanted to...

This is our muddy truck after driving Nevada’s gravel backroads. We were just past the Cortez Mine and saw heavy big truck traffic.

We had planned to head for a reputed agate area west of Austin but the rain and predicted snow helped us to decide to head north to I80 (Beowawe) and return to our favorite agate area in NW Nevada. These were mainly gravel roads passing by some lovely scenery and one huge gold mining operation...

We arrived in Eureka on Highway 50 to get fuel. The only place to camp was a cheek by jowl RV park but we found a rest area just east of town and a neighbor to the RV park. We were joined by others and spent a quiet night.

We took a series of graded gravel roads south to Eureka passing by Alkali Flat in the Diamond Valley. There were the usual abandoned farms and some mining activity, typical for Nevada’s gravel roads.

We drive the Harrison Pass Road out of Ruby Valley to the Elko Hamilton Stage Road. This was a very decent gravel scenic road with large rock formations and Star Mine, an abandoned mining camp at the beginning.

Ruby Lake NWR. The birds have pretty much migrated so only residents were ducks and songbirds but we did see vultures congregating. Staff was very knowledgeable. We camped at the South Ruby campground.