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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.

Homolovi State Park, Winslow, AZ – Tuesday September 27, 2016

Travel day so we could get laundry done and hopefully get propane.  

We are in site 24 a pull through.  Their is a laundromat in Marble Canyon right at the turnoff to Lees Ferry.  We drove down to it yesterday and found 8 washers ( 1 was currently working) 8 dryers (2 were working).  We have been to Winslow several times before and previously found a nice laundromat right in down.  So today was travel, laundry and a little grocery shopping.  

Tomorrow we will go to Winslow Flying J and hopefully get propane.  I’d like to start the week at the Balloon Festival with full tanks of gas, propane and water empty grey and black water.  Goal is fill propane at Winslow, fill gas Flying J in Albuquerque, at Bluewater Lake State Park NM, dump holding tanks and fill with water.

Update: added maps

Home – Dual Pane Windows – August 3, 2016

We have had this motorhome since November of 2004 and with close to 90,000 miles on it the dual pane windows are leaking.   I rebuilt the passenger side front window in August of 2014 and the driver’s window in 2015.  This year I am doing the two windows over the couch and dinette.
These two windows are kind of heavy and very expensive to replace if they are dropped.

To ensure they didn’t get dropped and broken I built a support to assist in getting them out and back in.

The windows have a set of 25 screws which hold them in place along with a lot of sealant/glue around the outside of the frame.   This sealant usually comes loose all of sudden so it is really helpful to have a place for the window to drop onto.

Here is the film which has built up on the INSIDE of the windows.
I ran my finger through the film so it can be seen.

First you take off this end bracket, remember it is also GLUED in place.

Then the two screws which hold the center bar in place.

Spread the window frame and take the dual panes of glass out of the frame.

Next the panes of glass are cut apart and cleaned.  The window which slides open has a metal bracket which must come off the window.  This is quite the job.
I soaked the window for several hours before starting the hard part.
It took me five hours of cutting between the metal and glass, then beating on the frame with a piece of oak and a hammer to get this one off.
After the two panes of glass are resealed together the metal lock frame is glued back onto the glass.
I used this spacer to ensure I had the frame is centered from top to bottom.
After another 2.5 hours I had the dual panes of glass back into the frame without ruining the rubber seal around the glass and another 15 minutes to get it installed back into the motorhome.

Now is time to start the window over the dinette.  The same process all over again.  However after 2.5 hours of working on the metal bracket

one of the two panes broke.
I get to purchase a new piece of glass.  Oh, well

Ordered the glass last Wednesday, when it came in this morning (Tuesday) the corners were not rounded so hopefully the correct glass will come in tomorrow, Thursday.