These photos are from our very pleasant drive (not windy) from Mountain Home ID to Baker City OR. (most of the photos were taken through the windows of the truck, that may explain the hazy look to some of them, but the sky was often hazy looking)
Boise skyline
this was as close as we got to the ID Capital
fireworks & fur???
a little house on a hillside of Caldwell ID
state #5 on this adventure
neither of us have been to OR before
not needed today, thankfully!
terrain is just more of the same
where are the trees?????
we climbed and descended some very big hills
a peek at some green grass & crops now and then
in the valleys & along the rivers
a fire along I-84 in OR had been in the News last week
this was the area
this was a smoldering area
no noticeable fires were visible
this was the river we crossed right after the burned area
ironic...
our home in Baker City for the night
great WiFi & meal
we had been traveling some of the same route as the Oregon Trail
Baker City has a FABULOUS interpretive center
for the Oregon Trail
seeing wagon ruts has been on my bucket list
these are nothing like the ones in Guernsey WY,
which is also on my bucket list
at least the wagon ruts are being preserved in some areas
on the recommendation of two geocachers in
Mountain Home who attended my event,
we stopped at the Chinese Cemetery
about 46 Chinese were once buried here
(there are no records prior to 1894, although they lived & died here)
the Prayer House is the brick building behind the Pavillion
again, so happy someone is preserving this history
one of the many depressions
most of the remains were removed in 1940 for reburial in China
the Chinese first came to Baker City to
work in the gold fields in 1868
in 1900, 264 Chinese citizens lived in Baker City,
which had a total population of 6663
they were miner, laundrymen, wood sawyers, laborers,
gamblers, merchants, servants, physicians, gardeners,
miners, butcher & tailor
the women? courtesans, prostitutes, 2 housewives,
and 1 cook
one woman & two men may remain in this cemetery
the Prayer House was used for burning prayer papers,
paper money, and paper objects for the departed
not sure of the significance of the windmill
it was across the road from the Chinese Cemetery
and had a road/street named for it
We were on the road to Portland the next morning. Maybe we will finally see some trees???
On this road as well! Have travelled them as we headed from BC to Arizona.......more in the November December timeline and March/ April, have had snow!!!
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