Catching Up

Sorry I haven’t posted for a couple days… no internet where we stopped!! Yikes!

June 29, 2008

We stopped at Indian Creek Campground on White Pass. With the weather being really hot this weekend I was afraid the campgrounds up here would be packed, but they had a number of spots open. The campground is beautiful, part of the Wenatchee National Forest. I believe it is Rimrock Lake that boarders one side of the campground and of course Indian Creek runs along another side into the lake. It has been in the high 80’s here but in a lawn chair under the awning with a stand of conifer trees it’s not been bad. We have gone on walks, I have read about 2/3rd’s of a book, we played Yahtzee and just talked. You see there is no internet up here, we are out of range, no cell phone, no TV. We do have lights thanks to the batteries we just bought and with the generator we can run the microwave, recharge batteries and most important, I can run a hair dryer and curling iron! Yeah! This kind of “roughing it” I can handle.

Here are a few pics and a video from Indian Creek. The video is instructional, it is how we get kindling for our evening bonfires.





June 28, 2008

Our visit with Jim & Kathy was great. We had good food and fun conversation, however this morning things got…well….poopy. To start at the beginning; on our way to Jim & Kathy’s a sports car passed us, the driver was honking his horn and pointing toward the back of the trailer. We pulled over only to find the sewer hose dangling from it’s storage place bouncing along behind us on the freeway. It looked okay, plastic ends were fine so Dave stuffed it back in place and taped everything shut. Move forward to today - when dumping the black water this morning there was much commotion, many curse words and a smell… Seems some of the coating on the hose was rubbed off which caused a leak. Actually Jim said it was more of a fountain effect. Some quick thinking and action on the guys part and everything was under control. Jim was disappointed that I didn’t rush out and video for the blog, but I really wanted to avoid being downwind.

Oh… here is a video of the new satellite dish folding up before we took off….

The Dish Is Installed

The dish is all installed and working wonderfully. Nate (the installation man) really did a nice job, cleaned up some messy wiring and fixed a speaker we didn’t even know was broken. Really nice man and knows his stuff.

Other than the installation we just hung around the place. Jim wasn’t working today so we all sat and talked on their back porch for a while. Cheye & Recon had a bit of a disagreement yesterday, much growling and some biting involved, so they are ignoring each other today. Last night we got steaks, salad and cob corn for dinner and Jim was the barbeque chef for us. The steaks were great (meat from Costco)! Ribeye's that were tender and juicy - mmmmmmm. Tonight we are going out for Chinese food. Gosh, I haven’t cooked since we left Silver Spur, I could get used to this!

Here is a video taken from the roof of our Trailer, pretty nice view from up there.

A little further North

We took off from Vancouver about 7:00 a.m.. Boondocking in the parking lot of a golf course club house is not a place to linger if it is men’s day on the course! Tee off times started at 8:00 a.m., the weather was going to be perfect for golfing. We were afraid the parking lot would get crowded and we would have a heck of a time getting out! So off we went an hour earlier than I usually get up. We are now back up at Jim & Kathy’s awaiting our new satellite dish installation. We bought a Winegard Traveller 1000 for Dish network. No more having to set up the dishes if we want to watch TV. Yeah!

Speaking of boondocking, Dave ended up buying a total of 6 RV batteries so we should not be lacking power if we park out in the boonies! I have to admit, being without power to run my curling iron this morning was kinda scary. ;) With the batteries and our generator we should be all set up to rough it in style.