My Life and Travels
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No fishing today, the water is dirty and it is going to rain all day.
Yesterday after I wrote the post I went outside to check on things and almost got blown over, wind was 50+.
Here is tonight’s forecast;
I will put the slides in before we go to bed.
This is our cellphone data service at Ruby Creek with the WeBoost on, have nothing without it.
Yesterday’s post ended up taking almost an hour to get it to actually post, oh well.
Happy Birthday Stine.
You cannot see the wind but it is blowing 20-35 mph all day. Blowing so hard I had to be careful it didn’t blowing my glasses off. The slides have been in all day and will be that way tonight.
The river is pretty dirty here but not to bad up at Three Dollar Bridge. 100% chance of rain tomorrow so we’ll see it goes, wind is supposed to be down 83° today 53° tomorrow.
As I was checking things out before leaving 5he big house the hot water tank was not shutting off. The water got up to 150 when I finally turned it off.
While we were in Richland I got a new E.C.O & thermostat. I have an adjustable thermostat so I did not replace the thermostat.
Water heater is working now in cold Montana.
Sunny 180 miles to Quartzsite
Campsite pictures
Enjoying the sun.
Quite a few people here.
Had to leave the southern RV Park by 11:00 a.m. We were out by 8:30 on our way to a laundromat and then heading to the warmest place I could find. We should be so Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument by tomorrow.
After Brian’s balloon flight I had to add more pictures.
This is Bruce, his 37th Fiesta.
View from balloon.
Where they landed.
Jean took this picture while looking for her son flying in a balloon powered by hot air. Brian and Bruce stayed north and east of the RV Park.
Here are more pictures of Brian’s balloon flight. Don Clapp took these pictures while we were setting up the balloon.
Brian’s Flight:
Landing site:
Pictures of setting up the balloon and leaving earth.
Today was balloon crew training morning. I was out the door at 6:00 a.m. going to an elementary school 10 miles from here. We went through the process of inflating a balloon and then taking it down so it is ready for the next day. The pilot we worked with is a really really nice guy providing us with lots of how to information and answering all our questions. He did not fly today because we were on the east side of the valley and the wind was blowing east. He needed to get a sponsor banner attached to his balloon and it would be a lot easier in the school’s grass field rather than some other field where ever he was able to land.
This is a picture of his balloon trading card, I took a couple of pictures of the balloon but I am to lazy to get out the computer and download the pictures.
Back of the card.
pictures looking halfway across the park
today
Tuesday
Looking forward to a great Fiesta, Brian and Christine get here tomorrow.
We are here for 14 days.
Today’s drive:
Campsite pictures.
Out the front window.
Aerials from InReach GPS.
This is an old dump which is used for RV parking during the Fiesta.
The red circle is around the balloon launch field and the yellow circle is the balloon museum where we are having dinner next Thursday the night they light up the special shapes balloons.
I spent six hours on Friday updating the blog. I had data on two cameras, Ipad and laptop to get all lined up and posted. Ended up using 4 gigs of data to get everything moved around and the posts written and posted for September 16 to 27, 2018.
Today I cleaned and waxed the bottom the the rear slide. The slide rides on a piece of plastic and it is important to keep the bottom of the slide nice and slick. I actually had not done this for a while.
Also, use CLR to clean all the calcium deposits off the water hose quick connect. It was getting to the point the connection were not so quick.
Chaco Canyon is one of the largest sites in the southwest built between 850 to 1150. It a really cool place.
Amazing in size there are 600 rooms and 5 stories high.
The drive takes a while, at least if you don’t want to beat your vehicle to death. The last 4.5 miles of a 16 mile gravel road is wash board. The peaks are 9 to 12 inches across and the valley’s are 3/4 to 1.5 inches deep. It took us long time to go the 4.5 miles. You can go a lot faster but you’ll sure pay for it in the long run.
