My Life and Travels
Did i say we are tired.
I marked a waypoint where we turned around.
We did the right thing turning around, Hank has been sleeping since we got back. He’ll lift his head when I go outside to make sure I don’t leave without him.
Going to be 95+ at home on Saturday so we are in the mountains. It may be warm during the day but at least it will be cool at night and evenings up here.
When we are driving we try to stop after 2 hours so Hank can pee. If he can not find the perfect place at each new stop he’ll use his fall back mud flap. He feels secure always knowing it will be there.
Did not do anything this afternoon, well not really I did work on the jigsaw puzzle Brian and Christine gave me for Christmas. Most days when I am driving I’d think about getting started on this puzzle and then after we were stopped I’d forget about it. It is a Shutterfly puzzle Brian had made of a picture I posted on the blog last summer. I got the outside border done before I had to quit for dinner.
Yesterday while at Cathedral Gorge we had a challenge with the refrigerator. It seems when the temperature gets over 100 it gets unhappy. With the sun on the outside of the motor home it had to be between 180 to 200 degrees on the outside of the frig. This morning while filling up with water I took some temp readings. At 9:00 a.m.after 20 minutes the shaded side of motor home was 78 degrees, sunny side the fiberglass 110, metal doors 140, steps 124. The weather channel said it was 96 where we were yesterday. Anyway the temp in the refrig started rising. At 58 degrees it was time to do something. This happened last fall one day at Lees Ferry when the temp got over 100 degrees. In the fall I worked on it for several hours and made plans to go to Flagstaff to get it worked on. I finally used the electrical disconnect to turn all the power in the coach. This reset the refrig and it worked fine until yesterday. This worked again, by bed time it was down to 45, at 4 a.m it was 37 and at 7:00 a.m. It was 35, happy refrig, has worked fine all day today.
We are in site one a pull through.
Warm windy day, 96 to 100 with a cross wind the last 96 miles.
We may not have internet the next few days so here is the current travel plan.
Really nice day in mid 70’s, Lees Ferry is to be 95 and Hurricane 104. We will head to Cathedral Gorge, Nv tomorrow where it should be 90.
Looking across the mesa at the volcano which created this rock.
The higher area is the caldera which created this area.
Frey trail down to the valley floor.
The information I read at the visitor’s center says this is a parrot.
Couple of years ago a flash flood created quite a mess, here are some of the thousands of trees backed up on other trees.
Trail up to the Alcove Area of the park.
It was a nice morning, I was back to the visitor’s center by 9:30 a.m. to catch the first bus back to the campground. I did have a jog down the trail a ways to catch the bus.
Our first afternoon at Bandelier Natl Park.
Here are a few of the pictures I took during our first day in Bandelier Valley.
A flower that was all over the valley.
An open Kivia.
This shows here some of the houses were built extending from the wall.
Looking up the valley at where the homes are placed.
Showing the homes in the holes in the rock wall.
In the middle you can see the railings and steps up into the homes.
More of the railings between houses.
This rock is just full of holes and is relative soft.
This cool flower again.
You can see people in the middle of this picture.
Here is a herd of Rangers.
The homes on the valley floor.
More of the railings and people looking at homes.
The logs go all the way back into the rock wall to form a roof for the lower unit and floor for the upper home. Later I’ll have pictures of the log holes in the rock wall.
The holes in this rock is just strange.
See the railings and people.
Couldn’t get enough of these holes.
Homes down in the valley floor.
Shows homes under an over hang.
Long row of homes.
The small round holes is where the roof and floor supports went into the wall, the homes were three stories.
Roof and floor support holes.
Abert’s squirrel, look at the ears.
This is from inside the museum, shows how they constructed the homes.
This is from the road leaving the valley. It was a nice morning.
