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Rest area in Eastern Oregon
. . .and another in Western IdahoSAND HOLLOW, ID -- One thing we've noticed in our travels is how many people travel with animals. Our neighbors in a California campground last week had two medium-sized dogs and a long-suffering cat in a small motor home. We wondered how the two humans found room to sleep.
At our campsite Sunday night in Oregon, we seemed to be the only residents without dogs. Earlier this summer, we camped in a Utah campground which actually had a corral for our horse, if only we had remembered to bring one.
Rest areas along highways often have facilities for horses, who need to get out and stretch after a long time in the trailer. The top photo was taken at a rather scruffy rest area in a remote area of Eastern Oregon.
But when we crossed the border into Idaho and got on I-84, the rules were different. No walking your horses on the lush lawn at this rest area. In fact the sign makes me picture a truck driver with a load of beef on the hoof stopping here and letting everybody out to graze.
At our campsite Sunday night in Oregon, we seemed to be the only residents without dogs. Earlier this summer, we camped in a Utah campground which actually had a corral for our horse, if only we had remembered to bring one.
Rest areas along highways often have facilities for horses, who need to get out and stretch after a long time in the trailer. The top photo was taken at a rather scruffy rest area in a remote area of Eastern Oregon.
But when we crossed the border into Idaho and got on I-84, the rules were different. No walking your horses on the lush lawn at this rest area. In fact the sign makes me picture a truck driver with a load of beef on the hoof stopping here and letting everybody out to graze.
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