Category: National Parks

In Desperate Need of a Real Shower

October 19, 2016

“Why don’t we get to ride in a horse car?  That’s way better! Can we trade the Chief for one?”  Evie was particularly interested in the idea of a stage coach after we spent our last full afternoon in the greater Moab area on a hike around an old stage coach way station.  Novel idea, but…

Day 2 – Arches

October 16, 2016

Jack kicked off the day by learning what happens when you step on a cactus.  Made for an interesting lesson in biology and pain management.  It was an aggressive little cactus too… it left a lot of needles in his foot.  We pulled out everything we could see and used some hydrogen peroxide.  He seems…

Moab

October 14, 2016

After going 4-wheeling in our 33′ 1985 Winnebago and getting towed by the real Mater we finished our day in a perfectly nice, low speed high drag boondocking spot.  We woke up to people talking (not altogether unusual since there are other RVs near ours), some scraping sounds and a “woosh”.  It was the last…

Full on 4-Wheelin’

October 12, 2016

No shit there we were…. again.  Waiting for Good Sam to call back to say they’d found someone to tow us.  We are now familiar with their process.  We will also be life long members if they’ll have us.  I kinda thought when we called today they might say, “You’ve used your one get out…

Yellowstone – Day 3

October 3, 2016

This is how our third and final day in Yellowstone started out:       As usual these days, we were slow in getting started on our third and final day in Yellowstone.  We had camped at a place about 6 miles beyond the western entrance of the park (aka tourist town – we’ll avoid it…