Checking Out The Pillars of Rome At Rome Oregon

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Bob

Sunday October 16, 2022 Rome Oregon

I have cell service but having problems posting. This is the fourth one today and we’ll be out in the woods again so no cell service. Recent posts in the side bar is the way to read them in order.

Making our way to Rome

We had about 40 miles to travel to hit highway 95 so we could drive on down to Rome Oregon, about 20 miles.

We drove on down from our dirt road camp spot and onto on this pretty good road, making good time.ranch1

 

We drove on by this reservoir, but I never did get it’s name.reservoir2

 

Follow the GPS if you dare, we do

And then my GPS directed us onto this lesser used road and we had a little rock but all in all, the road wasn’t bad compared to some roads we’d just been on.road3

 

Old stone cabins

There were a couple stone cabins along the road that we stopped to check out. The workmanship on this one was real good as the rocks were put together well. Good enough that it’s still mostly standing after all these years.cabin4

 

We also checked out this one. Another well done job. This one seemed to be some kind of bunk house.cabin5

 

We are still on the lesser road and making fairly good time now as we passed these water tanks for the cattle. This area is mostly a cattle area.vans6

 

There were lots of cattle at this water hole.cattle7

 

Info at Rome

We got back on a better road and made good time to highway 95 and drove south about 20 miles to Rome where we pulled in to the gas place there.

I wanted to ask someone about the Pillars of Rome that was out the road right across the highway from the gas place. A guy pulled up in a golf cart which turned out to be the owner of the place, gas, café and RV parking.

Just the right guy to get some info of the area and he provided us with what we needed to find the spot and find a place to camp for the night. We’ll return to his gas station in the morning to fill up as there’s not a lot of places on this highway to fill up.

Looking for the Pillars of Rome

After that we crossed the highway and drove on out this road about two miles looking for the Pillars of Rome.ranch8

 

Owyhee River

We drove on down this road and crossed the bridge to check out the river on the way.road10

 

We turned around once crossing the bridge and turned back.bridge9

 

This is the Owyhee river which starts way east at the Duck Valley Indian reservation where we were a few days ago.river11

 

We could see some of the pillars up ahead so drove on out that way looking for a camp spot for the night.road12

 

Some of the pillars were on private property so no camping there, so we kept looking and took a little dirt side road. There weren’t any roads to most of the pillars.pillers13

 

Tonight’s camp spot

We drove out that road for about two miles and found this spot to camp for the night, very peaceful area.camp14

 

Walk across the field

After settling in to our camp I took a little walk out in the field across from our camp to look around. You can see the two vans parked on other side of this grassy field if you look hard. I had a good walk.camp15

 

Tomorrow’s plans

We need to gas up first thing and start our journey south and then west to start our trek back towards home. We’ll go down highway 95 to White Horse road and then down to highway 140 west and meet highway 395 somewhere and then find our next camp spot.

We hope to make it to Last Chance Creek where we camped on the way in a couple weeks ago.

Nice day.

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Traveling the Scenic Juniper Mountain Loop Road

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Bob

Saturday October 15, 2022 Juniper Mountain Loop Rd., ID.

We woke here after a good night’s rest. We think we are through all the rough rocky stuff and about a half mile from a good graveled road.camp1

 

Van repairs

Yesterday I had a real hard time trying to shift the four wheel drive in and out so something was wrong with that and I needed to have a look at it before we took off.

I got the stuff out to crawl under the van to have a look at the shifting stuff. It all looked good. I checked the oil in the transfer case and it was full up so there must be something else wrong.repairs2

 

The solution

I decided to run the van up and down the little road we were on and try to shift it. After running up and down the road a couple of times and still no shift I figured maybe the new tires I put on the back were causing the transfer case to bind and not shift so I disengaged the front hubs to let the pressure off and tried it again and that worked well.  The new tires are slightly larger than the old ones as the old ones have worn. There’s about a half inch difference in their diameters.

So for now, I have to take the hubs out to relieve the gear pressure, so it will shift, when I need to shift it, which is only when we get into the rough stuff.

When I get home I’ll get two more new tires so they all match and all should be good.

For now, I can make it work.

Juniper Mountain Loop Rd.

We got on the road around 11 and about a half mile down the road turned onto this road, which is a well graveled road, much smoother than the roads we’ve been on in the last couple of days so we could travel 35 to 45 mile as hour, compared to the one or two miles an hour we’d been doing on the rough stuff.road3

 

Bunch of birds

I spied a bunch of ravens off to the side of the road on top of something, I think a dead cow, so we stopped so I could have a look, but they were too far off the road to tell what was going on.vans4

 

Juniper trees

There were lots of Juniper trees all along the route. They seemed to be doing well in this area.raod5

 

The road was really good and scenic and no one pushing up our rear so we just poked along.road6

 

We had about thirty miles of this road to do today and we were making good time.road7

 

We like quaking aspens, especially in their fall colors and we got to drive through these ones.aspens8

 

This is the lushest ranch we saw on this road. There weren’t too many ranches as there are a lot of wilderness areas.ranch9

 

Today’s destination

We were headed to a place they call Three Forks where the road can get across the river. The signs all said North Fork so I think they chanced the name some where along the way.

We were hoping to find some suitable camping near the crossing.

River crossing

We made it to the bridge that crosses the river and stopped to have a look.bridge12

 

There was lots of water in the North Fork of the Owyhee River. I think it was dammed up by man or beaver. Looked real nice.river10

 

Camp ground

There was a camp area near the river crossing but it had too many campers in it for our liking so we passed it up hoping to find a camp spot up the road a bit.camping11

 

We climbed out of the river gorge and were crossing over this area when we saw a small dirt road taking off to the left so we took it.valley13

 

Tonight’s camp spot

We didn’t need much for a camp spot and found this little pull into spot along the road when it topped a small hill.camp14

 

Nice easy day

Compared to what we’d been doing in the last couple of days, this was a real easy day. It sure went through some nice countryside today.

Tomorrow’s plans

We will drive on out of here back to highway 95 and go North to Jordan Valley to gas up then turn back south and turn on to a dirt road just south of Jordan Valley and we should be back in the boonies again. We will be going to a place they call Cow Lakes and then make some more plans from there

I  should be able to post all  my blogs at Jordan Valley.

Nice day.

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