Elgin, Oregon

Crossing the plains of southern Idaho and southeast Oregon is alot like traveling the west; the landscapes are similar. 

I camped not far from Elgin at the boundary of the steppe and the forest. There's water in them thar hills and lots of GREEN!

Passing through Elgin, I stopped at The Elks Club operated RV Dump Station for water. $0.10/gal donation requested for potable. Elgin is a logging town with a big pile of small stuff -- little did I realize I was looking at the last of an era when I traveled these parts in my youth and saw a single log on a semi-trailer...or maybe five or six "smaller" ones.

Up here they build their houses out of wood instead of mud.

No swamp-cooler.