My Life and Travels
We are at Horse Thief Campground outside Moab, Utah
I am here: 38 35.019 N 109 48.912 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:38.58366,-109.81520
It’s sunny and I can see forever. I must be getting internet from tower above Moab technology can be amazing.
We are at Monument Valley today.
We usually camp the Navajo visitor’s center on the edge of the valley. However, the weather is calling for continued afternoon and night time thunder shows. I am concerned that open area will turn into mud and we could get stuck so we are staying in the Goulding RV park.
At 5:30 a thunder shower did come through, looking at a few of the pictures I took I think we did the right thing.
This is the water running off the awning after only a couple of minutes.
Water just starting to run under the motor home, at the height of the rain is was a sheet of water running under the whole motor home.
This is the water running down the road, think it was 3-4 inches deep.
We are on a hill side so all the water has run off, at 6:15 it look dry enough to go out and grill some steaks. Be home in a couple of days. Harry, Jean and Hank
Campsite Homolovi State Park at Winslow, AZ. Yes that is large thunder storm to the right in the picture.
We went to Meteor Crater on Hwy 40 just west of Winslow Az. It is actually really cool place, got there at 9:00 a.m. and left at 1:00. Took a bunch of pictures, will have to stitch 3 together to do a whole picture of the crater.
We’ve had several thunder storms move over tonight, lost power twice but it seems to be staying on now. Will move to Monument Valley tomorrow and then someplace north of Moab, Utah for Thursday night. Friday morning starts the drive home.
Harry
5:50 pm, just pulled off I-40 4 miles eat of Holbrook we are dead center of a thunder STORM, it’s a nice truckstop. This is you STINE!!!!
We had dinner and left Holbrook at 7:30, got the Metor Crater RV park at 8:30, we are know in the middle of a thunder storm and it’s raining HARD.
The campsite picture was taken Tuesday morning.
We made it to Canyon DeChelly National monument a 5:25 pm, we pulled out of the state park at 6:00 am. Stopped at Walmart in Page, went up to the 4 corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico and then turned south to DeChelly, 378 miles for the day.
I am here: 36 59.933 N 109 2.709 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:36.99889,-109.04515 this is where my phone’s GPS says the 4 state corners are located.
The campsite picture is at DeChelly. I may add more pictures when I can get directly online.
Spending most of the day in camp reading and enjoying the sun. This morning Hank spent his time digging a series of holes to lay in. As the sun was moving west his hole would get into the direct sun and he’d need a new hole a little farther east.
The picture is hole two in a series of four.
Here’s our location from one of my GPS programs.
I am here: 37 2.060 N 112 44.054 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:37.03433,-112.73424
Another great day at Zion.
Tomorrow we move to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. We have reached the maximum of 14 days at Zion between March and October. We’ll be at Coral Pink for Friday and Saturday. Sunday we’ll drive to Canyon de Chelly National Monument with a goal of Monday being at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site. Jean wants to see this trading post and we have not spent much time in northeastern Arizona.
We may not have internet access for a while so this may be the last post for a couple of days.
Here’s a bit a information that may useful in the future.
One – don’t leave your door open when you’re not home.
Two – If you’re going to bring the kitty be sure it’s as least as big as the squirrels.
Yesterday I didn’t mention that the two condors were number 52 and 99 ( that’s the only numbers I could see on the tags). I spent some time and here’s what I found out about them.
99= is number 299, age 8 Male, born 4/17/2003, released 3/20/2004, note on National Park Service Condor information site, ( http://www.nps.gov/grca/naturescience/upload/condor-chart20110713.pdf) ’11: Seemed likely to nest near Angel’s Landing in Zion NP, with 343F/A3. But sent to V.C. for chelation due to high lead levels, instead.
52= is number 352, age 7 Female, born 5/29/2004, released 3/1/2005.
Have a GREAT day, Harry.
8:00 p.m. setting outside at the picnic table, another great evening at Zion. I got up early this morning and caught the 5:45 hiking bus up the canyon. This bus leaves early and is focused on people who want to get an early start hiking. It doesn’t stop at a regular bus stop unless someone is there. During the day it takes 45 minutes to get up the canyon, on the morning express bus it takes 20 minutes.
My plan for today was to hike up the west rim trail past Scout Pass and Angels Landing and spend most of the morning out on the open rock enjoying the country. Sunrise is after 7:00 a.m so I needed a flashlight to hike to first half hour. I could see trail however I could not see the high spots in trail used to divert water. Enter this ( 37.27938-112.95127 ) into Google Earth and you’ll be able to see where I went.
It was a nice day and got back to camp about 2:00.
I spent some time photographing the attached dragon fly.
On the way back down I saw several condor flying along the ridge line of Scout Pass and Angel’s Landing. I could not read the wing tag numbers until I downloaded the pictures. Here a a few of the pictures I took.
Some of the pictures I took at our stop at the Golden Spike National Monument are here.
We had a nice sunny day at Zion, well mostly sunny. A couple of hours from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. a very large cloud moved over the valley and we got 43 rain drops in our campsite. This morning Hank and I went for a walk. The cardio GPS tracker said 4.77 miles, anyway we had nice walk and he is getting better on a leash.
Wednesday is supposed to be a little warming with no afternoon clouds.
Got to Zion at 12:45, 80 degrees and rained most of the afternoon. Didn’t do much in the afternoon mostly read and stayed out of the rain.