Category: Campgrounds

Zion National Park , UT – Monday September 19, 2016

Last warm day for a while, today’s high is 95 and tomorrow it’s 79.

Wednesday we will be moving on towards our next goal of Albuquerque on September 30th for the nine day Balloon Festival.  Wednesday night will be at Sand Hollow State Park just down the road at Hurricane, Utah.  This way we will be within local TV satellite range so I can watch the first show of this season’s Survivor.   Then it is on to Lees Ferry for couple of days to get some Milky Way pictures, Bluewater Lake State Park in eastern New Mexico only a couple of hours east of Albuquerque.

I have added some additional information to my motor homing by the numbers post.  The number of days in each state.

Arizona  –  109
California  –  33
Canada  –  4
Colorado  –  1
Idaho  –  33
Montana  –  5
New Mexico  –  65
Nevada  –  60
Oregon  –  56
South Dakota  –  4
Utah  –  153
Washington –  408
Wyoming  –  21

Zion National Park, UT – Saturday September 10, 2016

One of the things I purchased while we were at the big house this summer is a sun shade for the awning.  I wasn’t sure how the power awnings would take the wind until this spring I saw people at the Goodyear RV Resort with power awning staked out.  This will really work well when we’re at Spring Training next March.  The motorhome faces south and this shade will help in the late afternoon and evening sun.

Zion National Park, UT – Friday September 9, 2016

Last night I worked on updating our travel logbook I keep in an excel spreadsheet.  Last year created a worksheet with summary information about each night and campsite information.  I worked backwards from now and got to 2012.  Last night I put all our Zion stays into this worksheet.  As of 2014 we had 96 nights here at Zion starting in September of 2003, we did not come to Zion last year (2015).

Also updated the maps for Monday 9/5, Tuesday 9/6 and Wednesday 9/7 and moved a couple to post so they  appear on the correct calendar date.  The Ipad program I use will only post a date as of the date it is actually published.  The PC program will allow me to set a publishing date to anything I want, this allows me to coordinate the blog post calendar on the right side of the page to the correct day’s information.

Don’t have a new picture for today so I’ll show our campsite again.
Weather has been warm; 92 yesterday, 94 today and going to be 96 on Saturday.

Zion National Park, UT – Wednesday September 7, 2016

Zion National Park is just the greatest place.

We have one of the largest sites in the park, B44 right on the river. A river site is at least 5 degrees cooler.  It is now 10:30 p.m. and it is still 75 degrees outside.

Tanya and I are still in the Fall newspaper.

Updated maps – Will post maps after I upload data from Inreach. Don’t know why this has two lines for today’s travels.
Drove to our campsite to drop off the car and then dump and fill with water.

Again don’t know why the GPS is jumping around so much.  Still a good pictures

Written on IPad.