Vol. 22 No 4 - 30 June, 2018

After almost a week at the house in Daytona Beach, we left early on 1 June to load in Pooler, Georgia.  Early enough for the sunrise leaving Daytona.

Loaded at JCB, Inc., three machines - a loader, a teleskid, and a skidsteer.

There was some extra time to spend on our way north, so we stopped in Martinsburg, West Virginia and spent Saturday afternoon and night with friends, Bob and Patty.  Jim has known them since they  were teenagers, the families were neighbours when Jim lived in the Buffalo area, and attended high school with and have remained good friends with Joe and Jimmy.  They moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia about 12 months ago for Bob's job.  There is a safe parking spot for the whole rig behind an empty shopping plaza that is only a few minutes from their home.

Martinsburg is the gateway town to the Shenandoah Valley along Tuscarora Creek. Also a lot of Civil War history in and around Martinsburg, WV.

That afternoon, Bob and Pat planned to attend a "Gun Raffle" fundraiser for friends at a local pub The Copper Still, so Jim and I were happy to attend with them and buy some raffle tickets and have a couple of beers.

"Gun Raffles" are a popular fundraiser - there had been a Poker Run ending at the Copper Still, door prizes, a 50/50 raffle, and the gun raffle.  First prize winner got their choice of a Beretta Nano 9mm or a Beretta Pico .380.  The organisers were a local motorcycle club, the Brothers Bound Independent Motorcycle Club, Montani Chapter: "A motorcycle club that does charity work.  We focus on family, work, club.  Have a strong brotherhood and a dedication to riding and helping our community."  A great group of men and women.

Stopped at another bar to see a friend of Bob and Pats, then to the house.

Drinks by their pool, under the umbrella because it was still raining.  Patty cooked a great dinner and a filling breakfast before dropping us back at the truck about 10.30 Sunday morning.

Martinsburg, West Virginia, Bob and Pat took us back to the truck.  Pooler, Georgia to New York load.

Bob welded the bike rack for the truck, he was checking how it was holding up.  Very well - it has been there and in use for almost 18 years!

Delivered one JCB machine to a Liftech, Inc. in Schenectady, New York on Monday morning, and the other two to a Liftech Inc, in East Syracuse, New York.  First time delivering to Liftech Inc. locations, another equipment rental company.

Liftech provides premier forklifts, heavy equipment, construction equipment and service solution centre with locations in New York and Vermont.

Empty and to Attica, NY that afternoon, the Western NY Moto Guzzi Rally was on the coming weekend.  First time this year at Joe and Michele's and to our camper.  The previous winter was long and cold, so there was evidence of mice getting in for protection and warmth. Had a bit of cleaning up to do. It was cold still for the first part of the week, we had the heat on.
Put the truck in to Empire Truck & Trailer Service in Buffalo on Tuesday morning, for routine maintenance.  Spent the day with Joe, running around to get Rally supplies.

On Thursday 7 June, we caught up with cousin 'Rite and Mike Kennedy and they took us to Canalside for lunch and also World War II planes were flying along the river prior to the weekend Air Show.

Jim and his cousin, 'Rite.

From the Buffalo News the previous day (June 6) - Vintage warplanes to fly over Buffalo Niagara region Thursday.

A formation of four World War II and Korean War military aircraft will fly over Niagara and Erie counties during the noon hour Thursday, promoting this weekend’s Thunder Over Niagara Air Show at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

The planes include a C-47 transport and a B-17 bomber from the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, and a P-51D fighter and a Korean War F4U-Corsair fighter, both privately owned.  All part of the air show on Saturday and Sunday.  Besides promoting the show, the overflight also marks Air Force Reserve Week.

World War II and Korean War planes.

Lunch was at Liberty Hound Restaurant is a waterfront eatery in the canalside / Naval Park area, the outdoor patio has two Navy ships beside it.  Casual dining, we had a great lunch.  There is a museum on the second floor.

Friday morning Jim and I left Attica for the Western New York Moto Guzzi Rally in the Vineyard, at the KOA campgrounds in Westfield.  On the way, se stopped in Dunkirk for lunch with Jim's second cousin, Nancy.  A very nice restaurant, good home cooking at the Central Station Restaurant. Always lovely to catch up with Nancy.

Leaving Dunkirk, we saw the signs for the Dunkirk Lighthouse & Veterans Park Museum, so we took a little detour.  It was closing at 2pm, so we had a quick walk around it for 15 minutes!

The Veterans Memorial in just inside the gates.

Internet:  Dunkirk Light, also known as Point Gratiot Light, is an active lighthouse located at Point Gratiot on Lake Erie in New York state.
The lighthouse was established in 1826 and the current tower was first lit in 1875.  The lighthouse was automated in 1960 and is still operational.

Interesting that the tower is flat, four sided, instead of the rounded style of most lighthouses.

Some of the old lake vessels.

There were a lot of groundhogs in the yard.  I saw them running away, but had to ask what they were.  They have many hiding places in the comnplex.

Then to the campground to set up the tent, catch up with guzzi friends, and settle in for the weekend.

Tasty chili for dinner that night and chicken wings, then campfire camaraderie.

Saturday morning biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast, then a group rode to Bradford, Pennsylvania to see the Zippo/Case Knife Museum.  It had been about 12 years since Jim and I were last there, and some had not been - it is about 80 mile (130 kms) from the campground - a group of six bikes went.  An interesting museum and free entry.

The carpark has fourteen 'lighter' street lamps, the Zippo Car, and the museum building has a 40 foot Zippo Lighter on the top and a three blade Case Canoe pocket knife on the front.

Website:  Explore the 15,000 square foot attraction that includes the Zippo Repair Clinic and Zippo/Case Knife flagship store. Enjoy a self-guided tour to learn the rich history of two American icons.

The entrance, and the USA flag comprised of Zippo lighters.

A walk through the history.  The first part is The Alley for the Allies, an exploration of Zippo's contribution to the American effort in WWII.

Plaque reads:  The original Zippo car, with flames blazing, traveled around the country in the 1950s advertising the lighter with a lifetime guarantee.

The Greatest Supporting Actor of all Times, an illustration of each time a Zippo lighter is in the Hollywood spotlight.

“It Works or We Fix It Free” Zippo’s famous repairs center.

Zippo Rocks - a collection of Zippo’s role in music throughout the years. 

Travelled back to Westfield on a different route, with a stop at Kinzua Dam near Warren, Pennsylvania.

Construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River began in 1960, against the wishes of the Seneca Nation of Indians.  It became operational on Sept 16, 1966 and flooded 10,000 acres of Seneca ancestral homeland and displaced 600 Seneca, who relocated to Salamanca, NY. 

The Johnny Cash song:- "As Long As The Grass Shall Grow”, is about this and broken treaties.  (Kinzua means 'fishing'.)

Pretty wildflowers.

Other guzzi friends were at the Southern Tier Brewery in Lakewood - we stopped there for a late lunch and a couple of new brews.

Penny and Cindy loving on Andrea!

Back to the campground for chicken dinner and awards.  Our Aussie/Yank friends, Stephen and Teri from Rochester, came to Westfield for a visit and to check out the moto guzzis.  Enjoyed dinner and some of the antics.  Great to see them, and introduce some of our 'crowd' to them.

After Awards, the kids at the rally pranked Joe and Jimmy with shaving cream and whatever else was available.  They are good sports!

Rain came in early Sunday morning, so a wet pack up and tear down.  More time consuming because everything has to be laid out again and dried back at the house.  Late morning we headed back with Art, and spent the afternoon sorting rally equipment and drying all the wet gear.  That evening a group of us went to the Pine Lounge restaurant and bar in Cowlesville for dinner. 

Monday was spent still drying out camping and rally gear.  Tuesday we picked up the truck, and early Wednesday morning, 13 June, Jim and I headed to Cleveland, Ohio to load and tarp roofing material at Garland Co.

Cleveland, Ohio to Big Piney, Wyoming.

A nice long run out west - Interstate 80 most of the way. Some rain, wind, and hot weather!

Sunset Thursday evening at Bosselman Truckstop in Green Island, Nebraska.  We have met my cousin there a couple of times, but we got there late and planned a very early start; she had dinner commitments that night and had to work the next day.

Sunrise the next morning at Bosselman Truckstop.

Sculpture at a central Nebraska rest area.  (Truck in the background to the right.)

The Lincoln Monument is a bust of Abraham Lincoln by Robert Russin, 12 ½ feet (3.8 m) high and resting on a 30 ft (9.1 m) tall granite pedestal at the Summit Rest Area on Interstate 80 east of Laramie, Wyoming.  Russin originally erected the sculpture in 1959 nearby on Sherman Hill, overlooking US Highway 30 (Lincoln Highway).  When Interstate highway 80 was built in 1969, state officials moved the monument to the Summit Rest Area and Visitor Centre located between Cheyenne and Laramie. 

A large grassfire created a lot of smoke near Laramie, Wyoming.

We enjoy the western states, open spaces, high desert, spectacular, and constantly changing scenery.

Truck Stop sunset at Rock Springs, Wyoming.

After Rock Springs, we left Interstate Highway 80 and drove north through Green River Valley. Mountain ranges on both sides.

Some trees in the small town of Eden.

Snowy Wind River Mountain range appearing in the distance.

Our delivery was going to Big Piney, Wyoming.  We found a motel mid morning Saturday, 16 June and unloaded the motorbike.  Great location - a restaurant, nearby liquor store and bar (we patronised all three!).

Big Piney, Wyoming is named after Big Piney Creek, and the creek took its name from the pine trees growing along the banks of the creek.  Cattle and oil have traditionally been the two primary industries for the area.  Lots of pine trees and the motel used pine furniture in the rooms - beautiful!

Some winter tools outside the motel door - caution cones, a big shovel, two snow shovels, and every exterior door had a boot brush.

No nice twisty motorcycle roads nearby, all the mountain roads were gravel.  Saturday afternoon we headed south and took a circuit through cattle country and lots of oil wells and leases.

In the small town of La Barge is the Eagle Bar, and discovered a great place.  We went inside and started getting jackets off, before getting to the bar, and one of the patrons told the bar tender, "I'm buying their drinks".  Wow, other than Jim and I, there were only three people drinking and the bar tender.  All extremely hospitable and interesting.  First time we have asked someone's occupation and been told "Roustabout" - a labourer on oil rigs.  That was Zane, he bought our drinks.  We only had one drink, still had motorcycling to do.

Old truck across the street from the bar in La Barge, WY.

Zane gave us some 'things to do', he is from the Farson-Eden area, we drove through there on our way to Big Piney.  The road east was interesting.

Stopped at the Farson Mercantile for an ice cream.

We talked with the other motorcyclist there - he was from Louisiana and was loaded for a trip far north, to the Arctic Circle.

"Home of the Big Cone", wow!  This is a 'one scoop' huckleberry cone.

On our way north in the truck, I had seen a log construction Church in Eden, I wanted to go back to take photos.

Further north to the town of Pinedale, it is the largest in the area and the County seat of Sublette County, population around 2,000 people.  It is south of the tourist town of Jackson /Jackson Hole and the Grand Teton National Park.  It had a more local feel to it instead of catering to the tourist industry.  It is has several hunting and fishing outfitting stores and gateway to the Wind River Mountains.  We stopped at the Wind River Brewery for a beer and late lunch/early dinner.

The pole for the Wind River Brewery sign is beer kegs.

Rain storms overnight and scattered storms and showers and cooler temperatures forecast for Sunday, so a shorter trip was planned.  Had a lovely breakfast at the restaurant attached to the motel - "The Bench".

We went back to Pinedale to the Museum of Mountain Men.

The incentive to live in the harsh mountain environment was the lucrative fur trade.  Specifically, beaver fur was required for hats and outer wear in the north eastern USA, Canada, Britain and Europe and beaver had been mostly hunted out in those areas.  The fashion industry increased the price of a beaver pelt.

The mountains are home to a large population of wildlife, including both grizzly and black bear, moose, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, whitetail deer, bighorn sheep, and mountain lions.  Over seven species of trout can be found in the area lakes.

A large exhibit of hunting rifles.

And knives.

Several books, movies and TV series have been about Mountain Men.

The life of a mountain man was rugged: many did not last more than a few years in the wilderness.  They faced many hazards, especially when exploring unmapped areas; biting insects and wildlife, (grizzly bears and mountain lions), winters with extreme cold weather and heavy snowstorms, diseases of all kinds, injuries and hostile tribes presented constant physical dangers. 

With the rise of the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the later 1830’s, many mountain men settled into jobs as Army Scouts or wagon train guides or settled throughout the land which they had helped open up. 

A great children's section - a reading/activity 'cabin' under the staircase, and these saddle stools.

This Mountain Man quilt raffle.

It is a fabulous museum, we spent a couple of hours there.  (Also, a storm and torrential downpour was happening outside.)
Spent a couple of hours in Pinedale - coffee and wandered the streets and stores.  Temperature had warmed a little, and the rain showers had held off.
Pinedale is 7,175 feet above sea-level.

The street signs had silhouettes of wildlife on them.

Lots of murals on the side of buildings.

A large 'mountain man' sculpture at the visitors centre in Pinedale.

Information stop regarding the Wildlife Overpass a little further west of Pinedale.

The wildlife overpass bridge at Trapper’s Point over US 191 is part of a larger project done by Wyoming Dept of Transport.  Required for pronghorn migration, to reduce vehicle collisions.

On the way back to Big Piney is the town of Daniel.  We had driven through it twice, and definitely wanted to stop.  Nothing much there, sign says population 156 at the 2010 Census.

It is only one block long, and one side is old, ex-businesses.  On the other side is a small bar.

The Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, a gathering of fur trappers and traders, was held in Daniel six times, from 1833 to 1840.

It appears these building date back to then!

We stopped in at the Green River Bar in Daniel.  We saw many buildings that the front posts were gnarled timber with a lot of large bumps.  Just deformities from disease or insect attacks over the years.  Interesting looking!

We had local Wyoming beers and the Green River Bar's signature snack is a 'slaw dog', so we had one each. Nice.

Of course Wyoming has lots of cattlemen/ranchers.

Trying to keep out of the rain showers, we did a quick trip around Big Piney.  It was closer to the motel.

Lots of antlers!

Back to the motel and loaded the bike before the next storm.

The Wyoming state flag.

We had dinner at this nearby pub - Waterhole #3.  Another interesting place.  Everyone is very friendly.

Light at Waterhole #3.

Raining the next morning while delivering the roofing at the Big Piney High School, but we had it off early and had to drive to Brigham City, Utah to load.

Following Green River.

At the first Utah Rest Area/Visitors Centre, I took a photo of the mountains in front of us, then noticed the ground moving with lots of prairie dogs!  They kept disappearing into holes.

Early afternoon we loaded a small shipment of steel structure at Nucor Steel.  This is the pieces that would not fit on the previous truck, so a nice light load for us!

Brigham City, Utah to Silverdale, Washington.

Early start in western Idaha.

Eastern Oregon.

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest.  The river starts in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It flows northwest and then south into Washington State, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and Oregon.

Hops growing in central Washington State.

The changing landscape of Washington State - desert to pine forests.

Our delivery for Silverdale, Washington which is west of Seattle, western side of Puget Sound.  Had to cross the twin suspension bridges of Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

A bit of history - the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was a suspension bridge that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula.  It opened to traffic on 1 July, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on 7 November of the same year.

Nearly 10 years after the collapse, the new Tacoma Narrow Bridge opened in the same location.

Delivered the steel to a building site in Silverdale, Wednesday morning.  Jim had noticed some grease on the wheel seals on the trailer, so we spent most of the day at a trailer shop to have them all replaced.  Good thing, a wheel bearing was worn and would have failed probably on our way back east.

The trailer repair place was OK with leaving the rig at their yard for the night, and Guzzi friends, Gayle picked us up from there.  Richard met us after work at the Backfire Motorcycle Night in Seattle.

Backfire Motorcycle Night has been held for about 10 years, on the third Wednesday of each month.  A gathering for all kinds of motorcycles – new, vintage and modified; and young and old motorcycle enthusiasts.  It was fabulous!

The Shop is a private garage and storage of antique and exotic cars.  They were fenced off, but people could have a look at them.  Derby is the restaurant in the front of The Shop, we ate there and it was delicious food and great company with Gayle, Richard and their daughter, Jennifer showed up!

There were beer tents and food trucks.  Olympia is an old Washington State beer.

We spent the night at Richard and Gayle's home, we had a great visit with them.  Richard took us back to the truck early the next morning,  Took a few hours to find a load, because we only wanted to go to North West Oregon.  Eventually found one and loaded about noon at Lakeside Upper School on the north side of Seattle.
(Lakeside Upper School famous alumni - Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.)
The sports field was getting new artificial turf, we loaded rolls of the old turf.

Lakeside Upper School, Seattle, Washington.

Seattle, Washington to Sherwood, Oregon.

Delivered the next morning to Field Turf's yard in Sherwood, Oregon.

After delivering, Moto Guzzi friends, Gary and Gerri Jenkins met us at the truck stop for brunch.  The truckstop is an easy distance from their home.  Great to catch up on their travels during last summer and plans for more adventures.
After lunch Jim and I went to Jim's cousin, Marianne and Vic's place near Parkdale, Oregon.  We stop there most years.  One of our favourite places!  Their back yard features Mt Hood.

First glimpse of Mt Hood on the way to Vic and Marianne's.

At the cross roads.

View from the back deck - honeysuckle in bloom.

Saturday was spent in Vic and Marianne's beautiful garden.  Blooming bushes and shrubs make it colourful and fragrant.  Some cracked corn encouraged chipmunks and birds to visit the back deck.

Saturday afternoon, neighbour, Linda visited.  We met her last year, we park the rig on her property; a pear orchard - about a mile away.  She invited us to her house to see the view of Mt Hood from her back deck.  She has a three story house and on a clear day - a "three mountain day", Mt Hood, Mt Adams and Mt Rainier can be seen.

Linda's view of Mt Hood.

Sunday lunch, Vic, Marianne, Pete (their son), Jim and I went into Parkdale to Solera Brew Pub.
A very cool place.  The eating/drinking area behind the Brew Pub has a view of Mt Hood, so it is very popular.  They have great food and enjoyable beers.

 

Mt Hood at sunset.

Sunday were several grass fires in the area, so some smoke haze.

The garden and orchards had lots of blooms, so the hummingbirds had lots of nectar.  Marianne had two hummingbird feeders out, but there were not as many hummingbirds as our previous visits.  I took a couple of photos of one that like the wind chimes.

Monday morning, the smoke had cleared and clouds moved in.

About lunch time on Monday. we packed up and headed into Portland.  We had planned to do some touristy things downtown, taking buses and light rail - but rain showers made it late before we could start out and would have given us only a short time there. We caught up on some things around the truck.
Tuesday morning we stopped at a truck stop near Toledo, Washington and unloaded the motorbike.  A beautiful day, so we headed up to Mount St, Helens.
Jim and I last visited Mount St. Helens in 1993, 13 years after the volcano erupted.

Mount St Helens June 2018 - very different to our last visit in 1993 - 25 years ago.

Mount St Helens visit in 1993.

Post card of Mount St Helens in 1993 - from my scrapbook.

1993 Mount St Helens visit.

The Toutle River and desolate landscape of 1993 Mount St Helens.

Internet:  At 8.32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St Helens erupted and blew down or scorched 230 square miles of forest. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but the landscape was dramatically changed within moments.  – 38 years later, recovery continues.

Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche.  Rock and ice slammed into Spirit Lake, crossed a ridge 1,300 feet high, and roared 14 miles down the Toutle River.   The avalanche rapidly released pressurized gases within the volcano. A tremendous lateral explosion ripped through the avalanche and developed into a turbulent, stone-filled wind that swept over ridges and toppled trees.  Nearly 150 square miles of forest was blown over or left dead and standing.

At the same time, a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted down wind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond.  A vast, gray landscape lay where once the forested slopes of Mount St. Helens grew.

We spent some time at the Forest Learning Centre, it is a very educational and lots of hands on exhibits.

Internet:  The Mount St. Helens Forest Learning Center is located inside the blast zone.  It is a partnership between Weyerhaeuser Company, Washington Dept of Transportation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.  Walk through a life-like forest and experience the Eruption Chamber.  Learn about forest recovery, reforestation and conservation of forest resources.

These are trees slices about a 1/2 inch/ 1 cm apart.

There are several Visitor Centres, but we only stopped at one.
38 years after the eruption - a huge effort by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the Foresty Dept and volunteers that replanted the forests.

Met a nice couple in their 1966 Mercury Caliente.

The Oasis Tavern, the only place we found open in Castle Rock, Oregon.

Local Football team - the Seattle Seahawks.

We found Ashtown Brewing Company, located in an historic building in the town of Longview,  A nice place, very friendly people.

Longview would have been covered in ash when Mount St. Helens erupted, therefore the "Ashtown" name.

Worked a bit around the truck on Wednesday. When we rolled up the tarps in Big Piney, Wyoming a week ago - it was raining, so we laid them out on the trailer to dry before rolling them up again and storing them.
Friends from Queensland, Australia were in the north west visiting their relatives and to attend a wedding.  Thursday, 28 June Jim and I rode the motorbike to Olympia to meet them.  We were early, because we wanted to have a look around Olympia.

Olympia is the capital of Washington State, located 60 miles (100km) south west of Seattle.

The Capitol Building in Olympia, Washington.

 The city of Olympia is at the southern end of Puget Sound.   The 1949 Olympia earthquake damaged many historic buildings and they were demolished. Parts of the city also suffered damage from earthquakes in 1965 and 2001.
We walked to Percival Landing on the waterfront.  Many sculptures on display from local artists:

Richard Beyer’s Kissing Couple statue at the Percival Landing at the Waterfront.

Percival Landing, Olympia.

Looking back at the Capitol Building from Percival Landing.

Lunch at McMenamins Spar Cafe.

Lunch at McMenamins Spar Cafe, in the historic district of Olympia.

 I worked with Andrew and Laurie in Wandoan in 1980 +, we remained friends.  We met Andrew's sister, Anna and her husband John at McMenamins Spar Cafe.

The Spar opened in June 1935 and was family owned for 70 years and was bought by the McMenamins, they own several restaurants in the north west.  There has been a saloon, beer hall or store in the building since 1880. It was frequented by blue-collar men that worked in nearby docks, wharfs, mills, and forest land.  Featuring a billiard room, gambling, variety theatre for dance hall girls and burlesque performances, barbershop, shoeshine, lodging rooms upstairs, and lots of liquor.

It seemed like only necessary modernisations had been done – still a lot of old furniture, and décor.  A very interesting place, and we had a lovely lunch with good conversation and lots of catching up. (Four Aussies and 2 Americans!!)

We had the afternoon to get back to the truck, so checked out a few places of interest.

Tumwater is a town south of Olympia.  Tumwater Falls are a series of cascades on the Deschutes River, near where the river empties into Budd Inlet and Puget Sound.

Olympia Light and Power Company constructed a dam and a hydroelectric power plant at the falls in 1890.  In 1896, Tumwater became the home of Olympia Brewing Company, brewing Olympia Beer until 2003.  (Olympia Beer Company was sold several times and is now being brewed in California.)

The Tumwater Falls created an impassable barrier to salmon, the Deschutes River above the falls had no migrating or spawning salmon, which was unusual in the Puget Sound river systems.  In 1952 a fish ladder was built to provide salmon access to the news constructed fish hatchery located above the falls.

The old Olympia Brewing Company abandoned buildings near Tumwater Falls.

Tumwater Falls Park has several totem poles,

Olympia Salmon Club totem pole at Tumwater Falls Park.

Further south we stopped at the town of Centralia, Washington, we discovered another historical building owned by McMenamins!  The Olympic Club is a living artifact of the Old West.  The Art Nouveau splendor remains remarkably well preserved.
Over the years, the Olympic Club (a former bawdy house) has served as the hideout for the famous train robber, Roy Gardner, and has seen countless "bunko" men come and go.  Gamblers, loggers, railroaders, bootleggers and miners arrived, pay dirt in hand, looking for sport, entertainment and distraction. 

"Bunko" men, I looked it up – ‘con’ men (a scam, a grift, a hustle, a swindle, a flim flam, a gaffle, a bamboozle, a bunko).

The interior is still preserved with over 100 year old furnishings.  Bevelled glass windows and doors, stained glass lights, antique cash registers, beer taps and bar furnishings.

Classic pool hall:  play pool, shuffleboard, or snooker.  Several of the pool tables have been in play since the club's opening in 1908.

The original Round Oak Stove used for heating,   (The Round Oak Stove Company was founded in Dowagiac, Michigah in 1871.)

This is in the Women's restroom - so many instruments for water outlets!  When I was taking the photo a lady that worked there said that a TV filmcrew was there last week for a documentary on unusual places/things.

Next stop was a stop at Donna's Place in Toledo.  Again - very interesting, old and eclectic decor.

We both had the Irish Death Stout.  The bar was all pennies covered with plexiglass/perspex.

Back to the truck to load the bike, and an early night.
Loaded one 16 foot PODS Friday morning in Everett, Washington, then south to Clackamas, Oregon and loaded two more 16 foot PODS.   All three for Orlando, Florida.

Everett, Washington and Clackamas, Oregon to Orlando, Florida.

 Four and a half days drive across country.  Getting back on east coast time, so an early start Saturday morning in eastern Oregon.

Eastern Oregon.

Driving south through northern Utah on Highway US 6.

Parked that night at a truckstop at Green River, Utah.

This is the same Green River as we saw in Wyoming.  It starts in the Wind River Range north of Pinedale, Wyoming.

It flows generally south through southwestern Wyoming, it cuts through Flaming Gorge near the city of Green River, Wyoming. It continues through eastern Utah, with a loop into northwestern Colorado and back into Utah. Then it flows generally southwest past the city of Green River, Utah and south east to join the Colorado River (that cut the Grand Canyon in Arizona).

Traversing rugged mountain regions through most of its 730 mile (1175 km) course, it is navigable only by special shallow-draft riverboats -  and only at high water.