Category: Campsite

Mountain Home, ID – Rest Stop – Friday September 24, 2010

Sunny warm day no clouds and only light breeze.  It’s 4:00 we are at a large rest stop on I-84 just east of Mountain Home.  Came 399 miles and ahead of schedule, started the morning 3 hours farther north then usual.
Will rest here a while before moving on.  Get gas in Boise and spend the night at a rest stop just inside Oregon, that rest stop does not have internet coverage.  Be home tomorrow :   🙂  &  😦

Update
7:00 pacific stopped for the night, 534 miles today and 532 from here home.

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Valley of Fire State Park, NV – Tuesday September 21, 2010

The text did not paste from OpenOffice.  I’m doing this again.

Vacation Monday 9/20/2010 and Tuesday

Monday we moved to Valley of Fire State Park north east of LasVegas.
Lot of red sand store and HOT sunny weather, 97 Monday and 96 on 
Tuesday.  
While driving to one of the many view points we drove through a 
rather deep wash area.  I was doing 20 miles per hour however 
that was to fast.  When we got to the bottom and started back 
up I heard a thump but didn't know what it was, thought it could 
have been the clothes closet door opening and then closing.  At 
the next view spot I went back to look and sure enough the back 
closet door was open.  It had an additional feature as the clothes 
closet rod had snapped and all the clothes were on the bottom 
of the closet.  
In all the stuff I carry one item is these 8 inch red velcro 
strips I get at Home Depot.  I used three of these strips 
wrapped around the pole and we have a useful clothes rod.
The park map has something I've never seen before on a park
map.  Three different view points are marked as possibly 
having cell phone service.  This could be a new feature on 
all maps.

Tuesday was also a hot day.  Hank was starting to look like 
a melted puppy so at 94 degrees we turned on the A/C, it's 
now 87 in the motorhome and he's a lot happier.  
Photo count for this trip is at 1615 and my camera just 
went over 10,000.

Added with update.
Tanya says I'm not to drunk post, however does it count if 
it's a Washington wine (and on vacation)?
Harry

 

Vacation – Friday September 17, 2010

It’s Friday and vacation is a great thing. We should do this more often.

It is warm as in the lower 90’s and Hank is uncomfortable. He’s not grouchy as he was the first couple of years he’s just can not get comfortable. He’ll lay in one place for about 10 minutes and then he has to move.

It’s the couch

chair

floor

under the table

different spot on the floor

chair

couch

he’s a warm puppy

In as much as Hank is a warm puppy Jean is ecstatic. She loves the heat and it’s actually quite nice this sunny and warm in September.

On a non vacation topic since I got this new laptop I’ve been working with OpenOffice for word processing and spreadsheets. MsOffice is just to expensive for a non work related activities. I think I’ll continue use OpenOffice for a while. One of the driving forces is my version of Office is Office 97 and it will not work with 64 bit Windows 7, at least I don’t know how to make it work.

OpenOffice wants to save text as ODF whatever that is however I’ve been saving text documents as rtf’s. Not really sure how odf’s will paste into wordpress blogs so I’ll stay with rft’s for now, may try odf’s later.

Got to go get a picture or two for today.
Our campsite for the week.

View of the west rim valley about half way up to the rim.

Silver Springs Camping – Saturday August 14, 2010

Great day 80+ degrees
Hank and I headed out towards Noble Knob, left at 10:00 get back at 4:00. Almost made it to the top.  We had stopped at our turn around point to let the GPS get the coordinates and elevation along with a good drink of water when two guys on bikes came by.  They said we were about a half mile from the top.
Starting at 10:00 we reached our high point from two weeks ago at 12:00 noon.  We stopped for a drink and Hank decided we should continue on until 1:00.  At our 1:00 turn around point we were having a drink, bone and candy bar when Tanya called to say they were back in San Diego.
Hank decided we should continue until the trees opened up enough to get a GPS location.  At 1:30 we reached an opening large enough to pick up 4 satellites, 5340 location 47 01 47N and 121 29 99W.  When we get home I’ll see about marking a map.  Home: We started at the tent in the lower left hand corner and turned around at the yellow pin.

When we got back to camp I had a shower and one of me favorite dinners, T-bone steak (1 lbs on SALE at QFC ), rice, soy sauce and a nice glass ( OK, several glasses ) of wine.