Infested Again

 We are in Sheridan, WY at Peter D's RV park. it's a nice little park . We were here way back in 2015. We like Sheridan. It's a nice, little western town. The only bad thing is we've been infested with millers (small moths). Every night at about 10:00 they start coming out. We have killed as many as 35 in the RV per day. I set up a bowl of soapy water under the microwave with the light on and catch 15 on average a night. We've had infestations before. Back in Michigan we had 10,000 lady bugs on the side of the RV and I think we got 5,000 of them inside the RV. It took us 6 months to get rid of them. Then in South Carolina we got infested with "Stink Bugs" (a.k.a. Ugly Bugs) and in California in a nice park we got infested with tiny ants. They were the worst! We'll never go back to that park.

We just hope we don't get infested with these guys. Wolf Spiders! This guy is staying in his home under the picnic table so far.

Our site at Peter D's. 

We've had some wildlife right here in the park. Here's a mule deer with velvet on his antlers. 

The weather hasn't been all that good. We have not had 2 days in a row without RAIN for the last month! 

We love the downtown in Sheridan. It's still alive with a lot of good shops and a couple of good bars. Our favorite bar is the World Famous "Mint Bar" it was established in 1907. It has a lot of western history in it. 

We met Matt and his dog Chewy in the Mint. Chewy is the local bar dog. He runs up and down the bar top meeting people and might get a treat or two, (mostly from Peggy).

They also have 3 pretty good Breweries in town, Smith Alley Brewery, Black Tooth Brewery and Luminous Brewhouse.

This is Smith Alley Brewery. They opened the main floor and installed the brewery in the basement. You can see the Mint across the street.

We met Paul and Deanie in the park and went to the Luminous to have a Beer. They are full time and are from Sheridan. They winter in Quartzsite, AZ. 

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Flash back to the old snow skiing days. Way back to the old Tioga motor home days.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

     

Prison

 We stopped in Rawlins, Wyoming. It's a small town, but it has an old prison. So we took the prison tour. It was pretty interesting. I would not want to be there! The park we stayed at was just a big gravel parking lot with power poles. The weather was not too good, it rained almost every day. So the park turned into a mud hole.

The prison was open from 1901 to 1981. It was not a nice place to be in. Over 13,500 inmates were housed here, including 11 women, during the 80 years it was open. More information can be found on their website wyomingfrontierprison.org

This was cell block A. At the time it was open, it had no electricity and inadequate heating.

The tour was an hour long.

One of the cells.

The gas chamber! You could go sit in it. But that was too creepy to me.  

Now we have moved to Sheridan, WY. We're at Peter D's RV park. We stayed here back in 2015. It's a nice grassy park and the owner is on site and checking to make sure we have a good stay.

Our site at Peter D's.

The town has gotten a little bigger. It now has 3 breweries and we've stopped at all 3.

Our bartender, Abby at Luminous Brew House. The tap exploded on her! It's the newest brewery in town. The beer is good. I like the Half Speed Cream Ale they make.

The Menu. It's a dog friendly brewery, like most of them.

Like this bar. This was at the world famous Mint Bar in downtown Sheridan. The Mint first opened in 1907.  It's a nice friendly place.

Katie got to play with a couple of other Bostons in the dog park here.

 

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We have a little wildlife on our site here. A Wolf Spider! Creepy!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Scary Drives

 We moved to Grand Junction, Co. Stayed at RV Ranch a nice old KOA but the price was not bad. We had a nice pull thru site, The town is very nice. It has a couple of breweries that we had to try. The one we liked the best was a little drive to Palisades, CO. It was across the street from Palisades Weedery. So it was kind of fun watching people going in and out. 

Our site at RV Ranch Park.

We took a drive through Colorado Monument National Park. It was one of the scariest drives we've ever done.   

Peggy wouldn't get out of the car! Monster Canyons right next to the road on Peggy's side.

No way we were going down to the edge and look over the side!

Coming out of this tunnel, on the left was what we thought, was a statue of a Desert Mountain Goat, but it was real!

Doesn't it look fake? But he was standing on the edge of the cliff. You can see the road on the other side of the canyon.

And just to our right up the mountain was all of his buddies! We will never do that drive again!

Big Rock!

Then we left Grand Junction and did another really scary drive on our way to Rawlins, WY. We took CO 139. It was a nice drive for the first 50 miles, then it all went to hell. Up a huge mountain 25 miles per hour for a long way up. We got up to 8300 feet high and on a little road.  

Peggy did all the Photos and Video, I was a little busy driving. After that scary part it was not too bad of a drive.

On the way, there were these tall fences to deter the many deer we saw from going out on the road. But they had these access places for them to get by the fence if they did get on the road.

Rawlins is kind of a small town and it has rained every day so far! My repair job on the small leak has worked great! No Leak so far. The park we're at is a giant parking lot with power poles. It's not bad. We are going to take the Frontier Prison tour before we go, pictures to come.

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Some place having fun!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

  

 


 

Monument Valley

 We stopped at Monument Valley for two days. It's beautiful! We paid $8 each to drive a 17 mile loop on the Navajo nation park. It's a dirt road and it's rough. It took us about 2 hours to do.

    

We stayed at the over priced KOA. It was $110 a night and it's NOT that nice. We hate KOA's!

Our KOA site.

Then we moved to Clifton, CO. The funny thing is, this park is an old KOA. But it's run way better and it's not a KOA anymore!

Peggy was driving and I was taking pictures. Utah is one of the most beautiful states.

 

I love Utah 

The week before, we were in Williams, AZ. This is one of our favorite parks, Grand Canyon Railroad Park. The town is a nice little tourist town.

In Williams, you can easily walk downtown and on the way, check out the railroad stuff. It's great!

The world famous Sultana Bar. We always have to stop here and have one and on Sunday they have a great breakfast. It rained every day we were in Williams.

We met a talented artist in the park, Keith Smyth,  and he gave us one of his prints. We'll get it framed and put it up in the RV. Thanks Keith.

 With all that rain, we developed a small leak in the RV. So I had to drive 40 miles round trip to get some Dicor roof sealant. I hate going up on the roof. Peggy stays on the ground with her phone ready to call 911 and take pictures of me on the roof. I used up the whole tube of sealant so it won't leak again!

 I climbed up again to check my work the next day and it looked good.

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Katie relaxing on the RV step or maybe she really wants to go in.

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On The Road

 We've done a couple of stops already. At the first stop we got the alternator problem fixed at a Freightliner dealer in Phoenix. The issue was, the nut holding the pulley was loose. The next stop was epic, we stopped at Fox's RV Resort on the Colorado river. We had a blast there. We'll be going back there again! Then we moved to Lake Havasu Falls RV Resort. This is a nice park. We've been there before. Now we're in Williams, AZ at Grand Canyon Railroad RV Resort. This is one of our top 10 parks. We've been here two other times. We have a site right next to the railroad tracks.

That was the loose nut. They pulled the Motor Home into the service area and fixed it in 5 minutes at no cost. Drove it in and out in 20 minutes. That was a great thing.

This is at Fox's RV Resort. See if you can find our sticker on the pig.

Peggy on the floating bar having a delicious red beer.

Like everything else, they've raised the price of a cold beer to $5. So we didn't hang out at the bar too much. See if you can find our sticker in this photo.

They have a nice little beach next to the boat launch. So we hung out there most of the time and Katie loved it too.

At our next stop we hooked up with Trish and Alan. We met them up in the White mountains back in the COVID days. They live in Lake Havasu City. We went to their house and they cooked us a killer steak dinner.

Out on their back patio in the Tiki bar.

And then they took us out on their pontoon boat. We had a blast. Lake Havasu is a beautiful lake.

Katie and Trish. Katie had a good time on the boat.

This is at Steamboat cove where we stopped and beached the pontoon to take a little break and take in the scenery.

We had a great day on the pontoon! 

Thanks for everything Alan and Trish!

I did a little RV security upgrade. I added a Google door bell. So far it works great.

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Peggy and I loving retirement!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.