Still warm at 7500′
Harper holding Olivia
Lily holding Olivia
I traveled south from Idaho and and spent the night in a town park near Burley. The park had hookups for $25, which was nice because it was hot and I could run my A/C.
The next day I drove to a campsite in the Cache National Forest. Unfortunately, my favorite spot was taken so I parked in a site across the road. If my site was open, I would have stayed a few days.
The next day I drove further south to Strawberry Reservoir and found a nice place to camp for a few days. I stayed at the reservoir for a week and then drove to Salina and found a campsite high on a mountain road in the Fishlake National Forest. Fishlake was just another overnight stay.
As I set up camp I noticed a smell of propane. Further investigation found that my propane regulator was leaking. I shut off the tank, removed the bad regulator, and transferred most of my food into my 12 volt fridge. I have had three propane regulators go bad since I bought Minnie. I think I will carry a spare from now on. That’s one way to make sure it never fails again.
The next morning I drove to Moab, Utah. I found a new regulator in a little farm and home store. It was twice as much as the last one I bought but little else could I do. I headed south of town to find a campsite in the Monti-LaSalle National Forest where I could install the new regulator.
About half way up the mountain I ran into construction. I had to wait 15 minutes for the pilot car and then drive 10 mph for 6 miles of construction. The road to my favorite campsite was blocked off, so I went down another road until I found a place to camp. I will be here at least through the weekend.
You can tell by my travels that I like national forest campsite. This time through I have not had good luck finding a place to stay. A few times I have passed up a previous camp because I had no Verizon where I had AT&T before. One place had washed out roads that left me leary of driving down. But most of the good campsites have been occupied by a trailer left to reserve it like a summer home. It’s not fair to take a good campsite and not be there except on the weekend. I want to make a sign to tape to the door of these rigs:
WARNING!!! THERE HAVE BEEN BREAKINS OF TRAILERS LEFT UNATTENDED IN THE FOREST IN THIS AREA. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR TRAILER FOR VANDALS TO DESTROY YOUR PROPERTY!!!
I agree completely about the RVs left to hold sites – they should be ticketed and towed. One of my big RANTS! The locals do that at Storrie Lake, and it drives me NUTS! 🙁
I’m really happy you smelled the propane leak before there was trouble. So nice you could identify the problem and fix it yourself. I’m having issues with our usual way of communicating – don’t know what’s wrong, but I’ll try again. I never really answered your last message, did I?
If I left my rig all alone in the forest, someone would surely break in and vandalize it! I don’t know how they dare. I have had many problems with Minnie, so I’ve had to learn how to fix a lot of things. Thanks for commenting!
I’ve run into the same annoyances you have. Great camp spots being held by empty weekenders’ rigs, and road construction!! As you know, I discovered little to no camping available in the Coconino outside Flagstaff because of bad roads and all accessible sites already taken. Hope you have better luck from now on.
I think you went back and added those adorable pictures of the girls. They’re so precious.
Yes I did Donna. Can you tell I’m a proud Grandpa?