Category: Campsite

Lees Ferry, AZ – Thursday September 22, 2016

We left Sand Hollow at 7:15 this morning, wanted to get on the road before the bad weather moved into the area.  It worked out well at we got here about 10:30 local time.
Here is today’s drive.
Lees Ferry area.

Our campsite, we set in the middle area for a while before moving over to a canyon edge site.

We are in site 41 at $9.00 a night with old guy pass.   We may be here until Wednesday or might move on sooner.
View from my chair in the shade setting next to the motor home is below.

This is looking back towards the campground from the river.

At 8:30 this evening the wind picked up and by 10:00 it was blowing 50 and 60 miles per hour. We put the large slide in around 9:30 and then put the bedroom slide in around 10:00.  The wind was blowing over the bedroom slide topper however the weather app shows rain coming this way and I don’t want rain coming in under the slide topper.  Getting the wind from the driver’s side rear quarter panel and it is sure raising hell with the old satellite dish.  It is designed for wind to come from the front and not the rear.  It is really banging.  10:45 and starting to RAIN big drops. Update at 11:00, rain quit after a few minutes wind is still blowing. 11:21 wind has stopped. Man is it quiet.

We keep a thermometer in the refrigerator to make to easy to keep track of the internal temp.  This afternoon I looked to see what the outside temp was and the refrigerator was at 50 degrees.  We went through this several years ago and I finally figured out that if I shut off all the power to the house side of the motor home for 30-60 seconds the refrigerator will reset it’s self.  I reset the power turned on the internal fans and an hour later the refrigerator was back down to 38 degrees.  Those internal fan can move some air.

I like traveling in warm weather not hot but warm.  One of the advantages is the motor home’s batteries last forever.  This evening we had the TV on using the 12 volt DC to 110 volt AC for several hours and the battery voltage never got off 13.0 volts.  With a light it went to 12.9.

 

Sand Hollow State Park, UT – Wednesday September 21, 2016

Just a few miles from Zion however I wanted to watch Survivor and we also needed a major shopping trip today.  

We are in site 7 a great pull-through and it is RAINING.  We stayed here several years ago when we were looking for sunny weather, we were not successful then either.  Last time we went north to Mountain View Idaho, this time we will move east Lees Ferry for several days.  

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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

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Liberty Lake – Spokane County Park – Tuesday June 7, 2016

We are in site RV13 on a warm day, 94.  Will be here one night, not a bad place when nobody is here. The rock parking spots are 13 feet apart.  Our large slide is taking up 2 feet of our neighbor’s 13 feet.

Update:  We will never stay here again the sites all steep and the people who stay here are urban idiots.  Two groups who came in after us acted surprised they would have to pay for their site, the sign on the camp host site said “Off Duty”. I think they both planned on leaving early the next morning before the host was “On Duty”.  One group had two additional cars come in just before dark and both cars left at 6:30 a.m. and the original campsite owner left at 7:00 a.m.   The restrooms were cleaned in the morning however he left puddles in the men’s side that looked about an inch deep.  

Maps:
Today’s drive

Campground location

Aerial of campground

Yellowstone National Park – Monday May 23, 2016

We left Lewis and Clark Caverns this morning with a little excitement.  When leaving the motorhome this morning I stepped down onto the automatic retractable steps just before they locked into the out position.  This sheared 3 of the 4 mounting bolts for the motor off it’s mounting plate.   It keep the steps up while we drove to Yellowstone I used 2 of Richard’s ¼ in zip ties.  If you cannot hold something in place with Duct tape or zip ties it should go directly into the trash.

We got to Yellowstone at 1:30, got our campsite for two weeks, set up camp and pulled the steps apart.  We could use the steps fully extended when they were braced up with my tool box and a leveling block, at least we could get in and out with no problem for the next two weeks.   Richard and I took the step motor into West Yellowstone and found Jake at one of the auto repair businesses who very nicely took the three sheared of bolts out of the motor.  We than went to Ace Hardware and found the three bolts we needed.  It took a little pushing and adjusting to the step motor installed back into the step bracket however we were done by five and the steps work great.

We are staying at Madison Campground 14 miles into the park from the west entrance, in site E196.

Great view from our site.

Maps

Today’s travel.

Madison Campground.

Lewis and Clark Caverns, MT – Friday May 20, 2016

We go up and were on the road by 7:00 a.m.  360 miles but several stops which didn’t get us to camp until 7:10 p.m.  Walmart and lunch stop took two hours because we could not find anything in the store.  The store had a very unique floor plan and they were out many items, i.e. 1157 tail light bulbs.  Getting checked out was also a major under taking.  We wanted to use our own reuse able bags and the cashier did not like that idea but did it anyway, very slowly. I then got in trouble for putting the two loaves of bread on the checkout belt first and for getting an extension cord which did not have a pricing barcode on it. Oh, by the way the store didn’t have many cashiers working for Friday afternoon. 

Next stop was propane.  I had done an Internet and Google earth search for propane and found two possible places in Missoula. One didn’t have any propane now and other one had the tank in a location where I could not get close too.  We started looking for another option. Richard found one however the person at work did not know how to operate the equipment. I found a place on Deer Lodge an hour east of Missoula note it is currently 3:30.  He said he closes at 4:30 but he’d be more than happy to wait for us.  We got moving and arrived at the propane place at 4:37.  We had to unhook our cars to get close enough to the propane and we were not out of his yard until after 5:00.  A really nice guy running a local business. 

Lewis and Clark Caverns site P 08.

We where here in September of 2001 in site D2. I have a picture on my camera and I will add it once I get it off the camera.

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Pink House, BLM on Clearwater River – East of Lewiston, ID – Monday May 16, 2016

At one of the few BLM campground’s with full hook up’s and with Old Guy pass only $9.00 a night. We’ll stay here until Friday and then move to Lewis and Clark Caverns 7 hours east of here.
Today’s drive. 

Our campsite. 

We are in site #1, that is site number one.

View towards the river.  This is a big river with lots of people fishing for salmon in boats with 100 to 200 horsepower motors.