Author: harrylange

Vacation Update – Monday September 13, 2010

It is Monday evening and I’m going to get caught up on our vacation.

We are at Utah Lake State Park on Utah Lake just west of Provo. Here’s what has happened:

Left home Thursday at 6:00 pm and drove until 11:00 pm., got to Wilsonville rest stop just south of Portland. 194 miles

Friday morning we were on the road at 5:30, got to Grants Pass at 10:00 a.m. And Richards at 7:40 p.m. 709 miles.

Saturday we went for a drive up into the mountain. Pretty much a paved logging road the sign at the bottom said up to 24% grade. It was a pretty drive. Had lunch at the top of the hill and returned to Richards.
Richard and I went to the rifle range which is just a couple of miles from his house to check the sighting on two of his rifles. He’s going hunt over the next couple weekends. They were both just fine. He let me shoot his .243 rifle. It’s been almost 40 years since I fired a rifle and I think I did pretty good. I’ll insert of picture of the 3 rounds I put into the target at 100 yards.

We then moved over to Vicki’s in Sparks. This will put us closer to Reno for the Sunday morning balloon races.

Sunday morning we left Vicki’s at 5:45 to go the the balloon races. I’ll attach some pictures, I took 493 all together. I’ll also put some into my google pictures later.

Sunday after noon Richard and I built a rack which attaches to the ceiling of Vicki’s garage so she can store her window sun shades during the winter.

Monday morning Jean and I left at 6:30 a.m and got to Utah Lake State Park just south of Salt Lake at 6:15 p.m. 562 miles for the day. This will leave us with 264 miles to get to Zion on tomorrow.

Night will do more later this week.

Tomorrow is Day 0.25 of Vacation – Wednesday September 8, 2010

Tomorrow September 9, 2010 we start our fall birthday vacation.  This is my 60th birthday present to myself, 2 count them 2 – two week vacations.  We took 2 weeks in May June and now two weeks in September.  I get to work until about 5:00 pm tomorrow.  I have a meeting that starts at 4:00 p.m..   We should hit the road at 5:45 or 6:00 heading south to Carson City to spend the weekend with my brother.

Well that’s all you need to know as of right now.  I’ll update you as we move south.

Holiday Weekend / Vacation Monday September 6, 2010

We spent the holiday weekend at home playing and getting ready for VACATION.

Got a new computer and I’m spending time getting it all set up for the vacation south.  Also added a D-Link DIR-615 wireless router replacing the wired D-Link Brian bought when he was home from college.  That was a long time ago (and I still miss him).

I want to use the laptop to do more photo editing and getting better at taking pictures.  I hope to post more pictures while we are on vacation than I did last spring.  In the spring I could only post picture took on my cell phone.  The last couple of years I have been downloading pictures from my camera to either my ipod or later Jean’s ipod, Jean has the 80 gig drive and I have a 30.  When we got home I’d then transfer the pictures to my computer.  On this trip I’ll download to the laptop and than be able to upload to the website or google site.   I’ve set up the computer to tether to my Droid for internet connection.   Should be fun.

Any way it was another great weekend with a 3 day work week.

New Toy -Thursday September 2, 2010

Just added to my collection of toys,  Dell 17 inch laptop.  Hard to call it a laptop it’s more like the whole desk top.

If I was going to get a laptop I wanted one with 10 key keypad.  I was also looking for an i5 processor and a Dell.  I could get this one at Bestbuy for about the same price as ordering it from Dell.  I actually waited to long to be able to get this toy directly from Dell before we left on vacation.   If I ordered it now it would not come until after we left.  I want to us this computer to up load pictures from my camera and try to improve on them.

Any way I don’t need it but I think I’ll enjoy it.