A front is coming bringing snow to the higher elevations such as Bryce Canyon and high winds throughout the area so we headed “down the mountain”, again. Currently, it’s hot in places like St. George, Utah, Valley of Fire, Nevada and Lake Havasu City, Arizona – hot like 90’s and 100 degrees hot! After this front passes, temperatures will drop 20-30 degrees cooler for 3-4 days and it will no longer be the weekend which increases our chances of finding a campground site.
The wind is howling with sustained winds of 30 mph and gusts up to 50 mph – not a good driving day! We’re glad we’re camped in a small county park on a reservoir. We plan to stay here until the weather improves. There are only 2 of us camped here right now going into the weekend! The sites are really close together but with no one here, it doesn’t matter! We’ve got a front row seat overlooking the water with birds all around us.
We’re hoping to take it easy, letting my cuts, scrapes and bruises heal a bit, plan out the rest of our trip and maybe update the journal.
Top: Our front row spot overlooking the reservoir.
Bottom: My toe was badly banged up, in addition to other parts, preventing me from wearing a shoe. It's my new look!
BREAKING NEWS…SNAKE IN THE RV!!!!
This morning I grabbed my slacks that were neatly folded in a corner of the RV bedroom and a snake dropped on the floor! I thought it was a shoe lace for a minute until it started moving! Brave soul that I am, I hopped on the bed and started yelling “SNAKE! SNAKE!”. Terry started laughing like I was crazy until he popped his head around the corner and saw it.
Luckily, it was a 18-24” garter snake. Not poisonous. Still, it was a snake!!! He picked it up and escorted it out…far, far away from the RV. I walked past it several times last night…in the dark! We don’t know how or when it got in the RV…
We have been very careful not to leave compartments open, only hook up to electricity with the wire not touching the ground, not hook up to water or sewer unless we need to fill or dump tanks. Snakes were not on the list of critters people have warned us about. We have been warned about mice, pack rats, salmon flies, red ants, Carpenter ants, wasps, spiders making webs that shut down your furnace (and they did!) but not snakes.
"It's just a garter snake!" Terry says.
GOOD FISHING MEANS BUGS!
Okay, thousands of little bugs have gotten into the RV. It reminds us of Montana or was it Wyoming? Terry tried vacuuming them but that didn’t work. He tried using my hair drier and we actually saw a reduction. We have smashed, drowned and heated thousands of bugs! We’ll leave a light on in the front for the rest of them to congregate tonight…maybe the snakes will go there, too.
REFRIGERATOR IS REALLY DEAD
Okay, this was supposed to be a relaxing weekend, other than the high winds. The refrigerator just died. It is really dead now. We moved what we could into the freezer that’s got ice in it. Hopefully, it’ll keep our food from spoiling.
All the stuff that’s happened today makes us laugh. Really, what are the odds of all this happening at once? We are so lucky! Wonder where the closest casino is located…Maybe we should buy a lotto ticket!
Camping: Minersville Lake Park, Minersville, UT
Electricity, water, dump station, Verizon 1 LTE, showers