My Life and Travels
Shorter drive today than the original planned.
We were 10 miles outside Page after a Walmart stop when we heard a Big Bang, (spell check wants capital letters) at the front of the coach. First thought it was a tire but steering was fine. Again we had coach problems where their was a place to pull off the road. Walked around coach and found antifreeze dripping in the front.
This is the drive for the day
And repair shop we will be at for several days.
We are fine coach will need some work.
Up early today and 292 miles to Lee’s Ferry for two nights. We got one of the two front row sites overlooking the Colorado River. The current plan is to be here for two nights then move to Gooseneck State Park in Utah. Temperature today is 98 and 103 tomorrow, parked so the refrigerator has afternoon shade.
The drive.
These front row sites have a large covered area and beautiful view of the river and hills.
378 miles to nice quiet rest stop out in the middle of nowhere. We have stayed here several times.
Tonight we are at a Rest Stop 10 Miles east of Glenns Ferry, ID. Nice drive today if you don’t count the three cans of pop which came rolling the length of the coach when I had to make a quicker then normal stop while coming through Boise. Oh yes, all three opened up on the trip from back to the front.
Campsite picture and the windmills out the front window.
The 100,000 way point was from April 7, 2018 on our way north.
Left Ruby Creek at 9:00 a.m. Richard and Vickie had already left when we got up.
We are on our way to the Garcia’s to help with the new grand-daughter, “The’ Girl Garcia” is scheduled to be born on Friday June 29, 2018.
Today’s drive:
We are in site A7
Today ended up being a moving day. With the rain over the last couple of days and the hard rain last night I decided we had better get out of the campground this morning.
The campground is about 50 feet below the highway and the road has two areas which get muddy and soft when wet. I drove the pickup up to the road and was going to walk back and get Jean and the coach. As I started back a BLM Ranger came by and gave me a ride back to our campsite. He said he would wait to ensure we got the coach up the hill.
I was slippery and getting soft in both of the bad spots in the road however we made it. Slipped around some and had a bunch of the heavy mud/clay on bottom of the coach.
It rained most of the afternoon, if we had not left Palisades in the morning I am not sure we would have made it up the road and back to the highway. We ended up having heavy rains during the next week and I am sure we would have been stuck at Palisades for at least a week and a half if not longer.
We moved to Ruby Creek BLM CG 8 miles closer of Ennis.
We are in site 15.
View for the next week.
We are moving from Beaverhead River to the Madison River in hopes that fishing will have improved.
The drive:
We are at the Palisades BLM Campground 28 miles south of Ennis, Montana. This is the same campground we spend two weeks last year.
A nice spot right on the river.
This morning before we left Beaverhead I called the BLM office which covers this area to see if the water system they were working on last June was working. I talked to two people, the first one didn’t know the second said the campground did not have water and since it didn’t have water the price is $8.00 a night. On the way today we stopped at Walmart in Butte and then Lewis and Clark Caverns Campground to dump and get water.
When we got to the campground I found out the campground price is $12.00 because they now have water. This is a BLM campground so we get the Old Guy price of $6.00.
This car truck accident was just ahead of use a mile and a half north of Ennis.
Happy Birthday to my daughter-in-law Christine.
Stopped at Les Schwab in Butte to get the flat tire fixed. They fixed the tire everything else was subpar work. People who know how to do their job are getting hard to find. One tech worked hard but had limited knowledge, the other was arrogant and lazy.
Today’s drive:
We are at Barrett Park south of Dillon.
Campground road, railroad (two tracks), I-15 so far not to noisy.
Having some great lighting while I’m writing this.
Today was a travel day; Walmart stop, Cabala’s stop and a nice sunny day. Drove 150 miles and got here at 4:20, in site B30.
Our site and the view:
Tomorrow we will move back into Montana.
Today’s drive
We are at Custer State Park, Game Lodge Campground site 16E.
The challenge with this site is it’s on a HILL. We have had this coach since 2005 and this is the first time I needed wheel blocks to get it level. The LevelMate-Pro said the rear was 4.25 inches low on the passenger side. The front driver’s side is 5.5 inches and the front passenger’s side is 10.0 inches low. We went into the town of Custer and got six 2 X 4’s and a pound of 2 1/2 inch screws. I was sure glad I had a $16.99 Harbor Freight cordless drill and set of drill bits. Took some time and I got the coach within 0.25 inches of level. We are here for 11 days so it was worth the time and efforts. I was tired when I was done. I was also glad I had my hiking bow saw.
