My Life and Travels
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.
We left Massacre State Park at 10:30 and headed south. Stopped at Golden Spike Natl Historical Site in Promontory, Utah for three hours. They had the steam engines out today and I got a bunch of pictures. We are in Springville just south of Salt Lake for the night. Get to Zion tomorrow. In keeping with taking a picture of all our campsites, here’s where we are tonight.
Here’s the walk Hank and I took Sunday morning.
Staying connected to the world, Saturday morning: coffee, Bailey’s, Andes chocolate and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me via satellite setting out in the middle of no where in my motorhome. This is why I work all year.
7:00 p.m.
Tethering my phone to the laptop. This makes it much easier to edit this blog. I’m going to make an effort to post a picture of very campsite from here on out. I have figured out how to upload pictures from my phone to DropBox and than when I can get to my laptop I’ll be able to have more than one picture per post in the blog. The WordPress app I have for my phone will only allow one picture per post.
The concussion I got last Friday must be getting better, I only drank a half bottle of wine for dinner. Jean thinks it is a side affect that I only drink half a bottle, it was a nice cab.
It has been a nice day, Hank and I went for a walk this morning and haven’t done a lot the rest of the day. We’ll leave here tomorrow and head south toward southern Utah. We hope you are having a Great day, we are. Harry
I’m setting a picnic table working on this edit and it’s a beautiful evening in south eastern Idaho.
Here’s the morning walk Hank and I took.
First day of fall vacation. We left home yesterday at 5:00 pm and drove until 11:15 to a rest spot along the Columbia River I-84. Today we slept in and did not hit the road until 6:30 am. We are now at Massacre Rock State Park in south east Idaho. We got here at 6:30. It is clear and warm. We drove 560 miles today all in sun shine. Will be here tomorrow and leave for Zion Sunday morning. We’ll get to Zion on Monday.