Adventures of Time To Play

It has been several days since the last post. We left Lyon's Ferry to get to Little Goose Dam by 9:00, we got in not a minute early. Some of the lock operators are sticklers for the clock. We had a little issue with the bow being pulled into the wall but overall ok. We got to Boyers Park Marina and KOA early afternoon. That evening (Sat. 7/16) there was a local country band playing. We went and listened for 1.5 hours and went back to the boat, not bad for a free concert. Spent the next day exploring the park, filling the water and trying to stay cool. Monday we were scheduled to leave for Clarkston but the wind was blowing 15 with gusts over 30. Tuesday's forecast was much better so we had our first weather delay of the trip. Tuesday we went through Lower Granite Dam, our last up lock. We called the lock master at 8:00 to let them know we were going to want to go through at 9:00. As we were leaving the marina hear comes a call from The Chief, a tug, wanting to go through. The Lock Master informed him we were in the queue so The Chief proposed we go through together. Similar to the The Dalles but we had to tie to the wall not to the tug. This tug only had one barge so he was a lot shorter than the other tug we went through with. We arrived at Clarkston and Lewiston early afternoon. We passed our planned marina and went into the Clearwater River in Idaho so we could say we did 3 rivers and go as far as we could. We back tracked to our marina to find that the docks are in serious disrepair. We are exposed to all the wakes from tugs and ski boats but it settled down last night so I am hopeful it won't be too bad.

So Carolyn started feeling bad on Monday and then worse on Tuesday. Once we got settled we broke out a Covid-19 test kit. Unfortunately, Carolyn came up positive. She is feeling better today but still fatigued. I am expecting all our plans to change over the next week. I don't have any symptoms, yet. We are both doubled boosted, hopefully that will make this less of an issue.