It was a long too somewhat trying hateful solar daytime yesterday. Let's promise it's the most trying hateful solar daytime of the trip. We're wiping the slate create clean too driving on this morning, having had a proficient night's sleep, several cups of coffee, too improved attitudes.
As you lot already know, nosotros had to receive got a apartment tire fixed foremost affair yesterday morning. What you lot don't know is that the nighttime before, we'd noticed this.
Yes, that's H2O leaking from a screw at the front end step. What the...? As it turns out there's a plumbing access panel inward the upper correct corner of the prototype below. Opening it up, nosotros discovered a irksome leak too a broken plumbing fitting. Okay, thence no problem. There was, within a half-mile radius of the RV park, a Les Schwab, a McDonald's, too a Home Depot. We could teach the apartment fixed at Les Schwab, teach some breakfast at McDonald's (because nosotros straightaway could non role the kitchen sink), too and thence alternative upwardly a plumbing plumbing equipment at the Home Depot.
First, though, some slow-stitching. I made my foremost yo-yo without using a yo-yo-making tool. Ta-Da! Sadie wanted to model it for you.
And simply to essay I could practise it again, I made another. Sadie modeled that i too. This is what happens to you lot when you're a stitching cat.
All-in-all, I managed 5 yo-yo's of the 12 I need. So, nosotros took aid of the morning's occupation organization too and thence got on our way. It was apartment too chocolate-brown yesterday, without a whole lot to break-up the scenery. This was the sentiment out the windshield.
This was the sentiment out my side window.
In several hours, nosotros reached our lastly destination, having taken a incorrect plow because some route structure confused our navigation unit.
Mike is a proficient trailer backer, too he has a back-up photographic boob tube camera mounted on the go past times of the camper. Still, we've been making it like shooting fish in a barrel on ourselves past times booking pull-through sites when possible. This was our site for the night. Nice.
But this is when knowing a lot nearly electricity doesn't go to your advantage. When nosotros plugged into the ability here, it kept flipping the circuit breaker on the commons ability outlet. Mike got out all his tools, hemmed too hawed over it for a proficient one-half hour. Finally, he said it didn't brand feel why it was happening. Everything was working on their pole too on our camper. It was really unopen to fourth dimension for the visitor catch to close, too thence I called them from the site to explicate the problem. "Oh," says she. "I'm nearly to close, but come upwardly on down, too I'll give you lot a 'pigtail' that volition receive got aid of the problem."
In trailer lingo, a "pigtail" is basically a brusk extension cord that plugs into your ability cord too and thence into their outlet that industrial plant some variety of electricity magic. With their pigtail, the occupation was solved. We laughed nearly how a piddling every bit good much cognition tin live dangerous. Only past times that time, nosotros were hot too sweaty, having been trying to figure out this occupation for a proficient long fourth dimension inward 92 bird oestrus too humidity. Oy. We simply wanted to sit down too relax too imbibe margaritas, too this hateful solar daytime that started out stressfully was ending the same way. Not entirely that, Mike however needed to prepare the plumbing.
So spell he did that, I was able to teach Smitty out on his leash for a brusk walk. He foremost took a proficient dust bath, too and thence constitute some tufts of grass. These were non to his liking, beingness dry out too overcooked, but he chewed on them simply a little.
He was pretty bold for his foremost fourth dimension out of the camper on this trip.
That's a handsome hunka mancat correct there.
The juniper bushes all to a greater extent than or less were loaded alongside juniper berries. It's a shame no i is going to plow them into gin.
Back inside, Sadie was cooling her tum furs inward the draft of the air-conditioner.
When it cooled off afterward inward the day, she could live constitute enjoying the catio.
After we'd cooled off too enjoyed some tasty refreshing beverages, nosotros decided to go out for a walk too run into what makes this house worthy of terra firma commons status. Walking upwardly the route too toward the Snake River, nosotros constitute a fenced off area. Here was the explanatory sign.
Looking on, you lot tin run into these piddling wart-like rocks alongside the orangish tufts.
Walking on, nosotros hoped to uncovering a means to teach to the river, too nosotros idea this was a really proficient indicator.
Before nosotros teach on, I experience a demand to warn you lot nearly how you lot could croak out here. Please follow me, too live careful. And teach those notions nearly cliff-diving out of your head.
Along the way, the sage brush was commencement to bloom.
Also, these piddling wild asters...at least, I intend that's what they are. The flowers are nearly the size of a nickel.
It was entirely supposed to live three-tenths of a mile, but it seemed every bit if nosotros walked a lot further than that. When nosotros finally reached a proficient sentiment point, this is what nosotros saw. Looking right...
Looking left...
Here's a pano from where nosotros stood. Remember that you lot tin e'er brand the images larger past times clicking on them.
We walked for quite some time, too eventually reached the river's edge. It was a piddling rocky, too thence nosotros weren't truly able to teach to the water, but I for sure wanted to dip my bare feet in.
I'll simply present you lot a few to a greater extent than images of some of the places nosotros stood too gazed out. The river was calm too inviting.
Eventually nosotros came to a wild animals viewing area. This sign was present, but nosotros didn't run into wild animals of whatever kind, salve for i piddling duck.
And here's some information nearly the geology of this area. Idaho is a really volcanic place. The sign was large alongside small-scale print, too thence I've cropped it into smaller sections you lot tin read if you're interested.
The geology is interesting enough, but what nearly that name, you lot ask. Massacre Rocks is thence named because of serial of skirmishes that took house betwixt settlers traveling the Oregon Trail too the Indians that inhabited the area. In a serial of battles, some 10 settlers were killed from a combination of several carriage trains. The commons literature claims "massacre" is a chip of an overstatement, but I'm happy non to receive got been there.
There was also this sign, too it's a piddling difficult to read. Basically, at that spot was an enormous flood.
In its wake was left a waterfall. The notch you lot run into inward the canyon wall below is where H2O i time vicious over into the river.
We were coming to the halt of our walk, but the setting Sun was making some pretty colors on the landscape.
This was a proficient stop-over house for the night, but a piddling unopen to the interstate. We left a fan on lastly nighttime to comprehend the noise, too that helped. I've indicated where the interstate is inward the prototype below.
We didn't walk this trail, but I'm including the sign because it describes the indigenous peoples who i time lived here.
All along the means on both sides of the route too every house we've stopped, we've seen these desert sunflowers inward bloom. It's difficult to teach a proficient moving-picture present of them because they are blowing inward the wind.
You mightiness yell back inward my bespeak to role our CSA veggies simply earlier leaving, I roasted a pile of them too made this Roasted Tomato Soup alongside Broiled Cheddar. The soup was made too frozen, too and thence nosotros had it for dinner lastly night. The soup was thence good, alongside simply a hint of spice. I did my breadstuff a piddling differently since I don't receive got a broiler inward the camper. I sliced a hoagie gyre crosswise into half-inch slices, too thence toasted them inward the oven at 350 degrees for 5 minutes. Then, I flipped them over too sprinkled them alongside grated cheese too toasted them for an additional 5 minutes. When I floated them inward the bowl alongside the soup, it looked similar this.
It was truly good. We ended upwardly simply cutting upwardly the croutons. It was a piddling similar eating crackers too soup alongside a piddling cheesy goodness thrown in.
Today we'll live on our means again. We should halt upwardly inward Vernal, Utah, past times the halt of the day. We're approaching our foremost ATV halt where we'll pass half dozen days. Between hither too there, we'll receive got i nighttime inward Vernal too and thence 2 nights inward Canon City, Colorado, earlier reaching Taylor Park Reservoir. Since at that spot won't live many amenities at Taylor Park, we're stopping for groceries tonight, too nosotros also demand to alternative upwardly some other plumbing fitting. When Mike fixed the leak, he discovered some other identical fitting, which nosotros completely human face volition also intermission along the way. It'll live proficient to receive got the plumbing equipment available if nosotros demand it.