Aug 6th - Boise, ID, to Owyhee Lake, OR

We stocked up the trailer at Trader Joe's and Walmart before heading to our next campground at a remote location in Eastern Oregon. Then we took the dogs for one last jaunt in the island dog park before we hit the road.
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We enjoyed a podcast episode of Fly on the Wall, hosted by David Spade and Dana Carvey, all about people's experiences behind the scenes on Saturday Night Live. The guest for this episode was Mike Judge, of "Beavis and Butthead" and "Office Space" fame. We had listened to a previous episode with Tina Fey, but this one was a lot more laughs. The hosts seemed to connect and riff better with Judge.

After leaving the freeway and passing through a couple small farming towns, we started up a narrow windy canyon road that ran for 26 miles along the Owyhee River, over a dam and five more miles of single-lane road to the campground. 

Even though we had a "lakeside" campsite, it was a 100-yard hike down to the water's edge, due to the low water level. We inflated our boards and were pleased to find that the water was about 82 degrees.  That was a welcome respite from the 100-plus degree, shadeless heat of our campsite. The lake was beautiful, surrounded by desert cliffs and mountains.

Our poor trailer's air conditioner had no chance to reduce the inside temperature to the designated72 degrees. In mid-afternoon, it got no cooler than 82! We tried to rig our pop-up awning to create some shade on the picture window near our front door. We had to prop up one side on a door step and an ice chest to get a good angle. It was partially effective. However, when we tried to exit the trailer the next morning, the awning leg was blocking the door. We had to reach out the picture window to pull it out of the way in order to exit the trailer.