Day 21

Wednesday, 09/30/15
Provo, UT
Lakeside RV Campground

We left Boulder WY about 10:15. We got on a secondary road with no route markers and were not sure if we were in the right place.  We talked to a local stopped along the road who reassured us we were where we wanted to be. We saw numerous herds of antelope during the day.  I quit counting after a dozen herds. I saw a moose in the middle of a stream. Lee pulled over and got the binoculars to try to get a better look.  It was definitely a moose but as it walked across the river it got behind trees so it could not be seen. This was in SE WY. 

We drove through miles of high plains, through large ranches and small towns. Eventually we drove through the Wasatch Mts which had a desert like look. Bare cliffs with lots of red rock molded by wind into many strange shapes and holes led us into the Salt Lake City area.  We are camping just south of Salt Lake City in Provo, Utah in a nice camp ground and hope to be in Zion Nat'l Park tomorrow afternoon. 

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Day 19 & 20

Monday, 09/28/15
West Yellowstone MT
Grizzly RV Park

No pics today.  No travel, no pics.

About 9:30 Seth and Lisa came by for a bite of breakfast and to say goodbye before they left to catch their plane to Oregon.  After they left I did 4 loads of laundry and we washed the dust and dirt off the outside of the trailer and truck.  That took about 2 hours. Lee did a vinegar and alcohol treatment of the front room for mold and I followed up with lysol spray. 
Tomorrow we head south out of Yellowstone and into the Tetons. 


Tuesday, 0929/15
Boulder, WY
Highline Trail RV Park

Left W. Yellowstone , Grizzly RV park around 10 am. Our trailer brakes did not seem to want to work. It got to 25 last night. After driving about an hour the brakes came on. We stopped at a view point and ate Macaroni salad and sodas for lunch. We stopped at a visitors center to get a Grand Teton park map. We took some pictures but it is hard to get just how big and impressive the mountains are. 

We saw a herd of antelope and several groups of 2. 
We took a detour off our planned route in order to find a rv park. Several had closed for the year already. We stayed at Highline Trail RV park in Boulder, WY

The trip map is in two parts because the GPS shut off and restarted.
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Day 17 & 18

Saturday, 09/26/15
West Yellowstone
Grizzly RV Park

   We met Seth and Lisa at Timberline Cafe for breakfast. We all pigged out except for Lisa, then headed off.  We took in Firehold Lake Drive and saw Great Fountain Geyser. Then went to Lone Star Geyser and saw Kepler Cascades. It was really 4 falls in quick sucession. We went to White Cone Geyser. Crossed the continenal divide twice. One of those places a small lake flowed both to the  Atlantic and the Pacific

We went to West Thumb which is part of Yellowstone Lake. We took in some thermal features there. We explored the Lake Hotel which was elegant. There was a violinist playing chamber music in the sun/sitting room. We also explored the Lake Lodge. It was more rustic, logs and all, with 2 big stone fireplaces and rockers on the front porch facing the lake. It was massive but managed to seem cozy too. We saw another big bull elk but this time 30 feet away. He was bugling. We ended the day eating at the Buffalo Bar again. I got buffalo balls, Lee ate buffalo too. 

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Sunday, 09/27/15
West Yellowstone
Grizzly RV Park

Seth and Lisa came over for breakfast then headed to Fairy Falls trail for some hiking.  When they got to the falls they found a beautiful 200 ft cascade. Grand Prismatic Springs was also part of their hiking excursion.  It looks like rainbow colors thus the name. 
It is also a thermal feature. 

We all planned to reunite around 5 or 5:30 and head to Mammoth Hot Springs to do a ranger lead observation of the moon eclipse. 
Lee and I decided around 12 to ride to the NE entrance of the park which traverses the Lamar Valley. The Lamar Valley is supposed to have an active bear and wolf population. We did not see either of those, but did see a few white tail deer and loads of buffalo. When we looked at the map we realized to return to W. Yellowstone and then go to Mammoth would be a 90 miles trip but to go from Lamar Valley directly to Mammoth was only 40 miles. So we asked Seth and Lisa to just meet us at the eclipse program. 

They arrived just as the rangers were assembling people to hike to the viewing point. We had already been there 1 1/2 hours. Nobody had eaten dinner so we ate sandwiches while we slowly watched the shadow creep over the moon.  By 8:30 it was getting chilly and the moon had fully darkened so we headed back to West Yellowstone.  Tomorrow is the day Seth and Lisa head back to Oregon.  So they will come by in the morning for a final visit before they head to Billings MT to turn in their rental car and catch their plane. We will leave day after tomorrow. 

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Day 16

Friday, 09/25/15
West Yellowstone, MT
Grizzly RV Park

Seth and Lisa took off on their own today.  They did Old Faithful and the various thermal features in that area.  Lisa did a little shopping and got 3 new tops. They came by about 10pm to tell us about their day and make some plans for tomorrow.  

 Lee worked on trying to kill the mold in the front end of the trailer.  He used a 1/2 & 1/2 mixture of rubbing alcohol and white vinegar. Then sprayed everything in the bedroom with lysol spray. After that we went shopping too.  Lee picked up 3 new shirts also. We saw an old fashion soda fountain so stopped and had real milkshakes for lunch. Then we went to the Yellowstone Historical Museum.  It mostly concentrated on the part the Union Pacific RR played in developing the area as a tourist attraction. It did have an informative film on the 1988 fire that  burned so much of the park.  Ranger Sandy gave a talk about the life of the bison and a litte about elk life styles.  

 We came back to the trailer about 3:30 and took a little nap. I woke up at 4 and felt sick to my stomach, had cramps and generally was miserable.  It had passed by about 9:30.  As I write I think I am okay now.

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Day 15

Thursday, 09/24/15
West Yellowstone, MT
Grizzly RV Park

After a 27 degree night it warmed to mid  70s bright and sunny.  Seth and Lisa came over about 10:30 and ate Lee's homemade granola. Then we took our lunchs and headed off  for Mammoth Hot Springs.  We stopped at Beryl Springs and Gibbons Falls, saw Roaring Mt. At Mammoth we saw both upper and lower Terraces. I looks like someone took a multilayered cake and striggled marshmellow cream all over it.  There is a pic at the bottom. An elk came right up to the boardwalk, I could have touched her. Then we saw the rest of the herd sauntering across the blacktop right in front of the Mammoth visitors center. 

Next we started to Tower Roosevelt. Our first stop on this leg was Undine Falls. Which is really a triple falls. We decided to take a side road that was 6 miles of dirt road hoping to see some wild life. The road was called Black Tail Plateau Drive but we did not see any of them or any other critters. We did see some beautiful scenery. Tower falls was a very high narrow falls that was very lovely. 

We climber to 8,900ft over Mt Washburn and Dunraven Pass. Between Canyon Village and Madison we finally saw a grizzly for certain. We stopped used our binoculars and even managed to get a picture. He wandered through high grass from clump of trees to clump of trees.  He was clearly not a black bear but a grizzly. We saw the same elk herd we saw a couple of days ago with the huge rack, but this time there was another bull, too. Smaller and laying off to the side alone.  The big bull bugled several times. Now if we can just see a moose or wolf pack. 

We got back to West Yellowstone after dark and ate at Buffalo Bar. The food was great and everyone but Lee ate buffalo. Tomorrow Seth and Lisa are going off on their own to Old Faithful Geyser and maybe do some hiking that us oldsters are not up to. We will get together tomorrow night and hear their adventures. 
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Day 14

Wednesday, 09/23/15
West Yellowstone, M
Grizzly RV Park


Seth and Lisa joined us at the trailer about 11. I fixed them breakfast and made sandwiches to take with us on our excursion for the day. We headed for the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.  We were going to try to see the upper and lower falls of the Yellowstone River.  We took in a few thermal features and got in a hike lead by a ranger to Uncle Toms Point where you look down on the top of the lower (bigger )  falls.  Then we drove out to Artist Point for a view of the falls and river valley. That is the iconic picture you often see.  Unfortunatley the sun was right in our camera lens so we did not get the best pic. 

Then we decided to drive to Hayden Valley where the ranger said there was a lot of bear activity and a wolf pack. We took in a mud volcano and a sulphur caldron on the way.  We did not see or hear a wolf pack, but did see a group of people waiting for them to show up.  We did see a good size elk herd and think a grizzly bear.  We had forgotten to get our binoculars from the truck so not positive. A mistake we will not make again. 

Lee played with his new toy, a Go Pro camera that Seth brought from Oregon. We were cold and hungry and it would soon be dark so we headed the 50+ miles back to West Yellowstone and took in a bar b que place. 

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Day 13

Tuesday, 09/22/15
West Yellowstone
Grizzly RV Park

Boy it got cold last night. It warmed up to 75 by mid afternoon. Think we will be breaking out the sleeping bags soon. The morning was spent messing with the tv cable and cleaning the trailer. While changing sheets we discovered not only are both closet areas wet so is the front wall and the mattress was wet on the end. We can not figure where the wetness is coming from. Good thing the sleeping bags were in plastic. 

We took off around 2 and drove to Norris Geyser Basin.  We took several hikes seeing various thermal features, walking a little over 2 miles. We listened to a ranger talk. Saw a lovely 85 ft water fall. On our way back to the campground I saw a herd of over a dozen elk.  We pulled off the road and got out our binoculars.The elk were across a river from us in a big meadow.  The bull elk who ruled this herd was a magnificent specimen. He has a huge rack and looked absolutely regal.  He was awesome. We watched him and his herd for 45 minutes.  He seemed particularly interested in one cow and kept following her and trying to lick her tail end.  She kept walking off when he did that, refusing his advances. He never got close enough for a good pic but a couple of young elk walked across the river and Lee got a pic of them with reflection in the water. 

We got back to West Yellowstone around 6 and got a pizza before going back to the RV. Seth texted and he and Lisa had safely landed in Billings and were renting a car to drive to West Yellowstone. (arriving about 11pm)  We will see them in the morning. 

Day 11 & 12

Sunday 09/20/15
West Yellowstone,MT
Grizzly RV Park

It was cold last night 27 degrees.  We had a breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast instead of our standard camping fare of pop tarts. Today we did some reading about the park and planning. Then we visited the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center. They had bears and wolves and other animals that would have been destroyed if they did not take them. They attempt to duplicate the life they would have in the wild. Then we went to an I MAX movie about the history of Yellowstone. It warmed up nicely by mid afternoon and was a sunny mid 60s. Pretty dull day but necessary and the physical down time was actually nice. 

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Monday  09/21/15
West Yellowstone, MT
Grizzly RV Park

The Park exploration started in earnest today. After a quick trip to the hardware store we headed into the park. We checked out one of the more upscale campgrounds inside the park, Madison Junction. We kept a sharp eye out for critters and were rewarded with many buffalo, a few elk, and a lone wolf, but no bears. We explored Fire Hole Canyon and Falls, Fountain Flat, the Lower Geyser Basin, Fountain Paint Pots, Midway Geyser Basin and the obligatory Old Faithful. We saw it and an other lesser known cone geyser erupt. We took a couple of side roads hoping to find less traffic. Often it was a slow to stopped parade.  Can not imagine what June, July and August are like. 
All in all we covered a lot, Lee saw bubbling mud pots, steam vents, hot springs, and geysers for the first time.  But we are pooped tonight.  We are old! 

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Day 10

Saturday 09/19/15
West Yellowstone, MT
Grizzly RV Park

We left Cody WY about 9:45 to 50 degrees temps and sunshine. We took the scenic route through Yellowstone Park to the small town of West Yellowstone, MT.  We saw buffalo, elk, and antelope as we drove but no bears. I recall from my childhood always seeing many bears when we visited Yellowstone which was almost yearly. Once we got to West Yellowstone we checked out a few of the 4 or 5 campgrounds in town.  We picked a nice but expensive one (Grizzly RV campground) which is only a few blocks from where son Seth and his wife Lisa will be staying come Tuesday.  We headed to a hardware store for a few things after we got all settled in our site. 

The TV in our trailer never has worked right so Lee fooled around with it and it seems obvious now that the problem is in the trailer not our exterior cable or the campgrounds cable.  When we get home perhaps we can permanently fix the problem. Our make shift fix for the cabinet and frig opening during travel seemed to work.  We made it the 135 miles today with everything shut when we arrived.

It is supposed to freeze at night and we were asked to disconnect the fresh water supply hose at night to prevent the spigot from freezing. Predictions are for highs in the 50s all week. 

We ate out at a little pizza place that had pasta and sandwiches and at least on Sat night live music.  They were very crowded so we left before they performed so we would not tie a table up after we finished eating. Stuff is expensive gas $2.75 gallon. 2 sandwiches $28 before tip. Not sure what is on the agenda for Sunday. 
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Day 9

Friday 09/18/15
Cody, WY
Ponderosa Camp Ground

Last night was cold and sleety and breaking camp a bit nasty but as soon as we got on the road it was sunny and temps got up to high 60s and comfortable most of the day.  Weather is supposed to dip to freezing tonight. The early part of the day was plains driving and the wind was pushing us around. We saw lots of antelope and that was about it for wild life.  Then the big mountains came into view with patches of what must have been last nights snow on them. As we drove over them getting 4 or 5 miles to the gallon we could see it was not deep but fresh.

Our refrigerator door and the cabinet that has drawers in it both came open during transit today.  That is 2 days in a row. As soon as we got set up in the campground we hunted a hardware store and looked for some solutions.  The drawer slides had been damaged so we had to buy new and install them. We got an extra latch for the cabinet door and a bungee cord we hope we can jerry rig to the frig door to keep it shut. We will see if any of that helps tomorrow.

We went to a restaurant  for dinner a local recommended.  We had steaks to die for, topped off with a sinful brownie a la mode. A BIG one we shared.  Yum

I drove the new truck for the first time today.  We took a back road to Cody and there was little traffic. I probably drove 80 of the 259 miles we went today. It was also the first time I have ever pulled the trailer. Nothing awful happened and I hardly knew it was there. Lee even seemed to relax after I was at the wheel a while.

Tomorrow we will drive into Yellowstone and look for a good place to spend the week that is close to where Seth and Lisa are staying. They are staying in a lodge type motel. The low tonight is supposed to be in the low 30s.  We may be digging out the sleeping bags.

Day 8

Thursday, 09/16/15
Gillette, WY
High Plains RV Campground

We started the day by using the very nice laundromat the KOA campground had.  We met a full time RVer who used to work summers at this campground so knew the area well.  She over heard us planning our route for today and offered a few suggestions she thought might help us avoid traffic in Rapid City.

We pulled out at 5 til 11 and headed to Devils Tower.  The site of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  I is something to see.  Without scale it is hard to really show it in a picture.  The local Indians have a legend about how it formed but the scientific explanation is the vent of a volcano had magma which solidified and over time the volcano eroded and the vent was all that was left. 

Went about 190 miles and ended the day in Gillette WY. It is a small town in the high plains.  Lots of grass, cattle and some oil wells. The wind shook the trailer and we heard  half rain half sleet a lot of the night.  It was calling for snow but did not make it.  

Thursday, 09/16/15
Gillette, WY

Day 7

Wednesday 09/16/15

KOA Mt Rushmore

Keystone, SD

Sorry this was posted late but we had no cell or internet access.

It got cold last night but warmed right up this morning.  We headed south to Needles Highway which is narrow winding road through huge rocks of granite and laced with mica which acts like a mirror.  Many of the rocks are thin tall spears thus the needles name but the mica looks like the rocks are seeded with diamonds when the sun shines on them.  They should have called it Needles and Diamonds highway.  There were several narrow one lane tunnels cut through rock that were in the way of the road builders.  They were pretty cool too. 

After that drive we were almost out of gas and detoured to Custer, SD.  Quaint little town that happens to be the home of the National Woodcarvers Museum.  Lee spent considerable time in there looking at carvings.  Then after a quick lunch and grocery stop we went to Custer State Park.  Needles highway is part of it but this time we went to the wildlife loop drive.  We saw deer, prong horn antelope, big horn sheep, buffalo and more prairie dog towns.  I fed a prairie dog a corn nut, he sat up and begged for more.

We took the Iron Mountain Rd back to Mt Rushmore and took pictures.  We didn’t have a camera last night.  This time we did and toured the museum that documented the building of Mt Rushmore.  But back to Mt Rd.  It was a flatlanders nightmare.  More tunnels and more kiss your ass turns than you can count. Having lived in the mountainous area of WV we were fine but bet a few travelers were white knuckled. We traveled 95 miles today.

We have made 2 recent donations to the lost and gone forever (formerly called overboard).  The hitch lock and my one and only glasses.  We really have to break this habit of losing stuff when we travel. Tomorrow we hook up the trailer and head on.  

Day 6

Tuesday Sept 15, 2015

Keystone, SD

Mt Rushmore KOA campground

We left Chamberlain at 9:45 this morning. Happy Campers beside interstate was remarkably quiet. The temps not too cold or too hot to sleep. We drove a couple of hours before leaving interstate and starting through the Badlands. We saw big horn sheep, buffalo, and a prairie dog town.  They chirp at each other.  Like to take one home they are so cute.  The terrain of the badlands is the real attraction though.  It is barren, awesome and almost spiritual.  We got pictures  but they do not do it justice. I had seen it before but still holds me captive when I saw it today.  We had nice weather to get out and walk to get a better look at it all.

We booked a KOA near Mt Rushmore and because it was after Labor Day they cut the price in half to $67 a night.  We passed a time zone so we arrived at the campground at 5:30 by our standards but 4:30 local time.  We ate at the restaurant here which was not that great but Lee enjoyed his buffalo meatloaf.  Tasted like meatloaf to me.  Then we went to the evening presentation of the lights at Mt Rushmore.  There is a big amphitheater where you listen to a ranger talk and watch a movie at dusk and when it is dark they flood the faces on the mountain with flood light while the Star Spangled Banner is sung.  It was too windy tonight to do the movie as the screen would have blown around, but we did the rest. 

Tomorrow we plan to see a carving center, mammoth dig, needle formations, and Custer Natl Park.  We discovered this morning we drove off with our hitch lock on the bumper last night an lost it and I have lost my only pair of distance glasses so I can not read a road sign in time to get in the correct lane etc.  Since Lee depends on me to keep him on the right road that is real problem.  Our new truck does not have Navigation.  This should be interesting.  We may be like that train in Boston and be riding forever.  If we do not come home you will know why.  

Day 5

Monday, 09/14/15
Chamberlain, SD
Happy Campers CG

We had a pretty decent night at Pacific Junction, Iowa. The train and traffic noise were not as much of a problem as we had anticipated. We optimistically got up and ready to leave at 8 when the Camping World 20 minutes away would open.  Unfortunately they said it would be a week before they could get to it. So much for that.  We were able to purchase a spare tire cover , ours had degraded in the sun, and a lid for the black water holding tank which had broken off yesterday.  We needed some other things they did not have.  We headed north on I29 and stopped up the road for gas and a snack. We stopped at another RV store and got another part we needed for the sewage line, so things are looking up.


 We still need to figure the propane tank problem out and we found mold on the wall by the head of the bed where the water has gotten under the fiberglass to the wood at the front of the trailer.  I am  very allergic to mold so ended up sleeping on the sofa.   We made it to Souix Falls and picked up I 90W and spent the rest of the day on it.  Ended up in Chamberlain SD about 100 miles short of the Badlands, Needles, Mt Rushmore and some other stuff we hope to see tomorrow.  The camp ground is called Happy Campers Camp Ground.  No kidding, so guess we are Happy Campers tonight.  It was a pleasant sunny drive but by this evening it was in the 80s and pretty hot setting up. We paid twice tonight what we paid last night and it was not as nice a place. Oh well. We traveled 334 miles today.

We unhooked from the trailer and went into the small town of Chamberlain to have dinner. We found 2 restaurants and chose The Anchor.  We saw an older lady who came in after us all alone and looking a bit lost.  We chatted with her and asked her to join us.  She was there to check SD off her bucket list. She would be flying home in a few days to Walnut Creek, Calif.  She lives in the same general area where I was born and lived until my midteens and was doing what we are doing, working on our bucket list. Small world.

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Day 4

Sunday 09/13/15

Pacific Junction, IA

Highway 34 RV Park

We left Danville, Missouri around 8:30 after a pleasant night.  It was quite cool, 40s but with an extra blanket we slept well. We drove around Kansas City and St Joseph.  The trailer brake in the truck says, No Brakes, Internal Error.  We have no clue what is going on with that but in flat land probably not critical.  We stopped a couple of times but no long delays today.  It was beautiful all day and a pleasant drive thru crop fields. When we got to our campground we found it was sandwiched between a railroad track and an interstate surrounded by farm land.  Between 18 wheelers and train whistles I suspect our sleep tonight will not be so peaceful. 

Dinner time brought on more trouble.  The stove would not light again.  There is a switch inside that is supposed to shut off  the propane but does not. The stove will light with it in the off position. It appears you must go out and manually turn on and off the gas at the 20 pound tanks to control the propane flow.  Add that to the brake light and we are now planning to go to a Camping World about 20 miles away near Omaha.  Hopefully they can work on it tomorrow and solve the problems.  A bigger issue is we have discovered there has been water leaking inside the exterior of the trailer and the wood behind the fiberglass overlay is wet on the front of the trailer.  We can't see anywhere there is any place water could or did get in.  Think we will ditch this thing when we get back from this trip. 

If you click below in the blank square you will see a map of todays 346 miles. 

Day 3

Saturday, 09/12/15
New Florence, MO
Lazy Day Campground

We left Clarksville, Tenn around 9am and it was not raining.  We went through a small piece of Illinois and into Missouri.  Just before entering Missouri we pulled over in a mostly vacant parking lot and went back to the trailer to fix lunch. Unfortunatly it was delayed because we found we had a flat tire on the trailer.  As we were working at putting on the spare, a nice local man with his teenage son  stopped and offered to help.  He really did not do much but took us to a big tire store nearby where we were able to buy a replacement for the destroyed tire.  The rest of the day was nice with only one other delay. A little town was having a parade which had through traffic blocked for about 20 minutes.  We arrived at Lazy Day Campground to a very friendly and helpful attendant who showed us to our sight. It has cooled to the 60s and calls for 40s tonight, but it was sunny when we made camp.
 We have rerouted from our original plans for tomorrow.  We should end up along the Iowa and Kansas border.

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Day 2

Friday  09/11/15
Clarksville, TN

Today started like our first aborted attempt to leave. Rain.  As we woke up we heard the sound of rain.  We checked the internet for radar and saw it was all around us.  We went out in the rain and connected or disconnected all the necessary stuff and wet and grumpy started off.  Oh I forgot that before we went out in the wet, Lee tried to fix coffee but we could not get the burner to light.  Lee refused to consider the possibility that the frig and freezer which run off propane when you are not parked and hooked to electric could have used both 20 gal tanks up.  We drove a while then decided to stop for gas and a bit of breakfast at a gas station. I convinced Lee to do a swap for another propane tank just in case that was the problem.  You can swap them at almost any service station if you have a barbque grill you know that.  Well low and behold.  The stove now worked.  Both the 20 tanks were empty.  When you just cook they last a long time but when you are cooling a frig and freezer apparently they go fast.
We had not been traveling more than 30 min and the sun came out and it was nice.  We made about 350 miles today. and about an hour before we stopped it started to pour so when we stopped it was wet and nasty although the rain had more or less stopped. There seems to be a plot to make sure we start the day wet and miserable from breaking camp in the rain and them rain again just as we get stopped for the night.
Lee decided after dinner to get  shower and we did not have hot water.  It works off the propane.  The propane was turned off inside but the stove still lit when I fixed dinner.  It should not have with it turned off inside. We can not figure out what is going on.  It is clear we should have done a shake down trip close to home to check everything out before we headed west.
The campground is nice and we actually have wifi and can listen to news and such. It has cooled down to the low 70s but is quite humid.  We are shooting for about and hour west of St Louis tomorrow. If we have to stop and have work on the trailer we won't make it.

Stay tuned for the trials and tribulations of the Hare.

Day One

Thursday 09/10/15

Wilson's River Front RV Park

Asheville, NC

Today we got off at 8:45 and arrived about 3pm in Asheville.  We had nice weather and only one delat due to a really bad accident on interstate.  The camp ground is small but has nice concrete pads to set the trailer up on. Josh is playing taxi in his new car and we will take he and his girlfriend Kristie out to dinner. 

Our ac is not shutting off.  It cools and then keeps running until you finally shut it off you are so cold. Seems we had that problem the other time we used it.  The heat shuts on and off but the ac will freeze you out. Since it is 80s outside at night we have to use it off and on. 

After a wonderful dinner with J&K and a brief visit we returned to the trailer for tomorrows plan
ing session.

Voyage of Hare

Wednesday 08/09/15
Little River, SC

We have planned a roadtrip out West to visit Yellowstone then South to Bryce Canyon and other parks in the area. We will travel in our travel trailer at a considerable greater speed than we do in Sea Turtle, thus Hare. When sailing it is said that the only weather you control is the day you start. That, among other things worked to abort our start today. We had low tire pressure in the trailer tires, the hitch setup for the new pickup needed adjusted, many things needed to be loaded into the trailer, and it kept raining. We were both getting wet with rain and sweat so we parked the rig in front of the house and promised ourselves an early start tomorrow.

Our goal for Thursday is to get to Asheville. We plan dinner with son Josh and Kristi. We may have a problem finding a campground in the vicinity as it seems they may be booked. We will deal with that tomorrow. I enrolled in Good Sam roadside assistance today but it won't be effective until Friday morning. I hope we have no issues tomorrow. Our trailer insurance was due so Lynda called and renewed it on our credit card.

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We hope to make a trip in Sea Turtle somewhat similar to last year starting after Christmas. Stay toned for that trip. If you would like to refer anyone they can see our log at:

http://voyagesofseaturtle.blogspot.com/2015/04/wednesday-april-15-2015-lightkeepers.html

Or thereabouts.