June 6th

We are staying here at Blue Valley RV Park in Walla Walla, WA.  We were suppose to stay at my cousins place in Dixie, WA which just up the road about 11 miles.  But because it is so hot we are staying at and RV park with 50 AMP service which helps keep the rig cool at night and during the day for our 4 legged friends.
This morning I tried calling Nancy & Gary's house twice but no answer. So figured something had come up so we headed down town to the framers market to see what they had in fresh vegetables.  We did get some fresh asparagus and cherry's. We found some fresh cinnamon swirl bread that will make some out of this world french toast.  Going to have that in the morning.  After we were done their we headed up to Nancy's house to see if anyone was their.  When we got their here was Nancy waiting  for us.  We talked for a while but then we had to go down to where Gary was doing a demonstration on fire starting.
So off we went towards Pendleton, OR made a right and headed towards the Umatilla Indian Reservation.  This is where Gary and his son Grant was putting on a demonstration on fire starting.

Here is Grant showing us how to start fire with bow, stick and a lot of work.  Well after a couple of minutes and a little luck he had fire.

Now it was my turn, after a lot of work and a lot of work I had no luck at starting a fire.  Give me a match or lighter and I can start a fire.

Here Gary is using a steel and rock to get a fire started.  After a little luck and the wind let up we had fire.

I think you can see the smoke and a little bit of flame's.
We had a great day visiting with them.  This is a hobby that Gary does and enjoys a lot.  He knows the history of the area very well and does a great job of putting on demonstration about how Lewis & Clark traveled through this are.  He worked as a Park Ranger around this part of the country for a long time and finally retired a few years ago.  His knowledge of the outdoors is great.
Tomorrow we are going to the something else he will be doing, I am looking forward to it and hope to get some good pictures.

Got to love the look of this trike and the words on the back "BOSS HOGS", see this down town Pasco.