It was 77 degrees at 7:00 am this morning, at 12:30 it’s 86. Today is our last day of vacation at 6:00 am tomorrow we’ll head north for 1223 miles and 28 hours of travel. Windy today,good 25-30 MPH the straps I made to manage the slide toppers are working great. Went over to the Goblins this morning for 2 hours. Had cell &internet for about a minute, will post these on the way home.
Month: June 2010
Kodachrome to Goblin State Parks – Wednesday June 9, 2010
Starting this and will send it if we get internet today.
5:00 pm at Goblin and no connection today. Picture is MH at Goblin. It’s 93 – 16% humidity, good 25-30 MPH wind.
I have a observation of the day: 94 degrees is a lot better after 3/4’s of a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, Thanks Gary & Kim.
Kodachrome State Park, Utah – Tuesday June 8, 2010
Went back to see if I could put text between the pictures I posted with my Droid.
Hank took Harry for his 7:00 am hike. We got to go on trail hike, at Zion we could only go on one paved path. It’s 9:00 am 75 degrees and Hank is taking a nap.
Two pictures today, one of camp & one sitting in my chair looking at the view.
Zion to Kodachrome State Park – Monday June 7, 2010
Today we left Zion, the road going East was only open from 7:00 to 9:00. We went through at 7:15. Drove 107 miles to Kodachrome State Park. We’ll be here for two nights.
Picture of the day is Hank on lizard watch.
Looks to be about 91 today.
OK, now I remember what I liked about Kodachrome BASIN State Park. It was 92 at 6:25 sundown. YES, we are at the upper end of large basin and sunset was 6:25. It’s 9:10 right now and still light out, but the sun went down at 6:25 at our camp site. Life is good!!!!
Zion National Park – Saturday June 6, 2010
Sunday at Zion and more than likely stay in camp all day. It’s going to get to 104 today. At 11:45 it is 90. The weather channel says 89. Jean is laying in the sun and I’m hiding in shade of the MH.
We leave here tomorrow morning and head east up and out through the tunnel. They are starting road construction tomorrow so it only be open to MH from 7:00 am To 9:00 am in the morning and two hours in the evening. You can drive around but that’s about 50 miles. We’ll get all shower’d up this evening, dump & fill with water. I don’t think the two Parks we are go to have water. I don’t want miss the open tunnel time waiting to get water in the morning. It can take a while to take on 100 gallons of water, with the tunnel open for 2 hours everyone may decide to leave at the same time.
HAPPY Birthday to the UW Executive MBA Candidate.
The picture of day is camping thing:
Extra picture, weather channel says 98 this is under our awning not in the direct sun.
Zion Natl Park – Sunday June 6, 2010
Sunday at Zion and more than likely stay in camp all day. It’s going to get to 104 today. At 11:45 it is 90. The weather channel says 89. Jean is laying in the sun and I’m hiding in shade of the MH.
We leave here tomorrow morning and head east up and out through the tunnel. They are starting road construction tomorrow so it only be open to MH from 7:00 am To 9:00 am in the morning and two hours in the evening. You can drive around but that’s about 50 miles. We’ll get all shower’d up this evening, dump & fill with water. I don’t think the two Parks we are go to have water. I don’t want miss the open tunnel time waiting to get water in the morning. It can take a while to take on 100 gallons of water, with the tunnel open for 2 hours everyone may decide to leave at the same time.
HAPPY Birthday to the UW Executive MBA Candidate.
The picture of day is camping thing:
Extra picture, weather channel says 98 this is under our awning not in the direct sun.
Zion National Park – Friday June 4, 2010
It’s Friday and we have been gone for a week. As you all know this vacation thing is much better than billed.
Hank and l got up and went for three poo morning walk, that’s anything over 3 miles. We actual did just over 4.
Today is also a two picture day. These where taken within minutes of one another. One was taken were Hank wants to spend the middle of the day and one is where Jean spends the day. Jean’s picture has gone up 2 degrees since l took it.
Have a Great weekend, we’ll be back to Enumclaw weather in a week.
Zion Natl Park – Friday June 4, 2010
It’s Friday and we have been gone for a week. As you all know this vacation thing is much better than billed.
Hank and l got up and went for three poo morning walk, that’s anything over 3 miles. We actual did just over 4.
Today is also a two picture day. These where taken within minutes of one another. One was taken were Hank wants to spend the middle of the day and one is where Jean spends the day. Jean’s picture has gone up 2 degrees since l took it.
Have a Great weekend, we’ll be back to Enumclaw weather in a week.
Zion Natl Park – Thursday June 3, 2010
Today was the trip with Zion Field Institute. It’s an organization that supports the national parks in this area, they have a 3 million dollar budget and last year gave Zion 800,000 dollars. The 4 – 5 hour hike has a limit of eleven people. This outing missed the limit by 10. So l got a personal guided tour. We went to two places I would never been able to have gone by myself. Michael may also do the river trip in September. Great day with amazing views.
Picture of the day is a HOT but I’m still friendly Hank, 92 in MH with over 100 this weekend.
Great job on identifying the sky with no clouds.
Zion National Park – Wednesday June 2, 2010
Wednesday at Zion Natl Park. Today’s entry will have two pictures, one from the East Rim trail and the other is a mystery picture. If you think you know what the mystery picture is you can add your guess to the comments. I left home with the comments set as moderated and l’ve had no luck getting that changed. You’ll have wait for me to approve comments.
I caught the 5:45 a.m. bus this morning and hiked up to the East Rim trail 4.5 miles up and 4.5 miles back down – a long ways for me. It got to 90 today and should reach 100+ this weekend.