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Buckeye, AZ Sunday February 13, 2022

Last Sunday morning we had no water. My first thought was the water pump had frozen, it was 24 degrees during the night. Turned the heat on which also puts warm air into the lower storage area where the water tanks are located. After 20 minutes the water still had not started to run so I went outside to see what was still wrong.

We had no water with a small puddle under the coach. All the water in the take was gone, about 50 gallons. When I put in the expansion tank a couple of years ago I also put in a plastic drain value so I could drain more water out of the holding tank for winter storage. The value either failed or vibrated open. The small puddle was because most of the water had already evaporated.

The first thing I needed to do was get the valve out and fined something to block off the hose. I went through my tool box and found a plastic display fixture from a 1/2 in socket I bought a couple of years ago.

We got water at a place in Quartzsite that sells propane, water and sewer dumping. Water was $8.00 for 80 gallons.

This picture was taken after we had refilled the tank, you can see the water level at about 70 gallons.

Orovanda, NV – Wednesday September 8, 2021

Another travel day, 201 miles.

We are at a rest stop 2 miles south of Orovanda, NV. The area is not marked with parking spots so I pulled up along the outside corner so we can put the bedroom slide out to night. It is hot and we are running the air conditioners. The rear coach storage bay is 105.

It is smokey here as is most of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and norther California.

Big House – Saturday January 4, 2020

This will have several firsts:
First time to post with my new IPad keyboard the Garcia’s got me for Christmas.
First time to post using WordPress off line function. In one of the WordPress updates I read that they were adding the function of write a post offline and the posting later. I have tired several apps and none of them really worked.

I have had several motorhome projects since we got to the big house and his week I updated the front support for my fly rod storage tubes.

This was a quick design that I hoped would work. The challenge is that their is no way to connect the support to the back wall of the storage compartment without drilling a hole. I don’t like adding places for water to get in, so this is what I started with.

Running the piece of plywood across the top of the compartment solved my problem of how to keep the support on the back wall of the compartment. The support is sitting on the PVC fence post I use to store the folding ladder.

I really like this keyboard, I like typing a keyboard that has movement in the keys. The WordPress writing offline is not working so well, pictures are not attaching themselves to the post. Oh, well.

Follow-up, as soon as I turned wifi on this post published including the pictures. This may work, I’ll have to check on a few more things like publish, if the publish date is the date written or date transmitted to the web. I can always go back and change publishing date in WordPress options. This could solve the challenge of spending a day updating the blog after being without internet for extended periods of time. And I REALLY like this keyboard with backspace, delete, arrow keys, shift KEY for caps, it is full keyboard.

Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek CG – Friday June 14, 2019

Three Dollar Bridge
2 six inch Browns on a Parachute Adams, during a small hatch and the below 15 inch rainbow.

15 inch Rainbow – a guy I had talked to earlier in the day came by just as I hooked this trout –(on a red weighted San Juan Worm) he took a picture for me, he said it was the only fish he saw caught today. Hooked another nice trout but he got off.

I watched this goose and her young for a while and then decided I should take a picture, by the time I got my camera out the little ones had moved to far side of the nest.

Here is my view while I ate lunch.

Beaverhead River, Fishing – Saturday June 9, 2018

Had a good time fishing for the first hour or so, then the wind came up and could not keep the hooks and line out of the brush.
When I got to the parking area it sounded like it was going to be great day.  Their was a guy who was come back to his truck to get a heavier rod.  He had hooked an amazing fish on his first cast of the day and was unable to land it so he was coming back for heavier rod.
I did not see any fish or have any strikes.  After lunch I ran into the guy from the parking lot, he was with two other people and one fish they got first thing in the day was the only fish they saw.

10 minute map.

Uploaded data map.
Where I was from the campground.

Beaverhead River, Fishing – Friday June 8, 2018

I got to go fishing today.  The guide we talked to will at the Bighorn River said the rivers were flowing at a 100 year level and the Beaverhead River was the best bet for fishing.
The water is clear but I did not have one strike, saw two.

I did track by fishing with the InReach satellite system.
This track is from the units 10 minute tracking.  Every 10 minutes it transmits it’s location to a satellite and it is record real time on a view able map.
The InReach unit records where it is each minute and stores that information inside the unit.  I can upload this information to the mapping system through my laptop.
Here is that map.
I don’t know why it produces the false locations like to ones high on the map away from the river, but sometimes it does.