Our Little Guy Goes Where He's Towed To
This is just a few minutes drive from Rick’s mom’s house. Nice walking path around Lake Winfield. It’s a place for Simon to walk and sniff things. Yesterday he jumped in the lake. Still hot and humid but cooler weather is coming. Planning another bike ride today. Maybe we’ll stay on the path this time.
It has been so humid at night that the moisture collects on the T@G windows and it appears to have rained. Skin feels good though and my hair and nails look great too!
Seems like all the campgrounds have electricity at the sites. Using it has taken all the worry out of wondering if we have enough battery power to run the Norcold, the fan and even the stereo. It’s been warm at night so running the fan is a necessity. This is new territory for us since we have only used our solar panel for charging the battery all summer.
Took this shot of punderson lake while riding my bike. Beautiful quiet morning.
Our spot for tonight. We were able to find this state park with an app called AllStays. There seem to be CG far and few between in this part of the country. Guess it’s because there isn’t as much US Forest Service land and the much more dense population.
We’re glad to find this park These are Susan’s old stomping grounds as a child. She may want to add her own words here, but she seems to remember things as familiar names and terrain and horse farms and such. She’ll see something and tell me stories about her childhood as we travel along the country roads.
Simon is traveling well. We put ointment in his ear last night and it seems to have helped his ear scratching. It’s nice to have him here as a warning guard dog.
We’re planning on staying here tomorrow until final check out time. The park and country roads are inviting us to get on our bikes and get a little exercise.
One nighter outside South Bend, Indiana. This is another one of these resident campgrounds that allow campers like us too. We are amazed that so many sites are here with homes on them. This would be a trailer park in colorado and would not allow transients like us. Very humid. The sky is white. Good thing our primitive site had electricity. Ran the fan most of the night. Heading east to see touchdown Jesus.
Here’s our spot for tonight. We drove for about seven hours today. We’re getting ready for dinner. We’re not used to the humidity. Seems muggy to us. I think Simon is getting an ear infection.
Almost forgot to take our point-in-time picture marking our departure this morning. We very much enjoyed our stay at Wendy and Matt’s home in Iowa.
Climbed above the campground searching for cell service. It’s really pretty here.
We are outside twin Lakes tonight. Easy setup. No canopies or add ons. Aspens are starting to change already. Sent from my iPhone
Practicing taking a snapshot of map. I might use this feature on our upcoming trip.
Here’s our stumbled upon site for tonight. Again we were headed to a state park and found a national park right near it. We must have made a wrong turn, but we ended up here. We’re feeling more at home at higher elevation and in treed site. This is site 17.
We must remember why we don’t like to camp on weekends and this place reminded us why. Although we were away from where the families were camping, they had four-wheelers and one young rider was allowed to ride it around the campground loop over and over again. Rick finally gave him the stink eye as he passed our site and then mom came out on her four-wheeler and then it was over for the night. We left a note with our $3.50 payment that perhaps there could be signs about no four-wheeling in the CG. Tip: don’t camp on weekends.
We were going to stop at Valley of Fire National Recreation Area today. There’s volcanic rock all over the place. I think we are tired of hot and dry. We decided to keep going until we can get some higher elevation, shade, and maybe a little less wind. We figured if we have to sit inside to get away from the wind we might as well be sitting inside the truck driving to someplace more pleasant.
Pretty quiet here in Guadalupe mountain national park. Not too hot either which surprised us. Everyone is already in their campers for the night. The campgound here is basically a converted parking lot. At $4 though, it’s a bargain. Everyone respected the quiet hours and space. Nice place to wash dishes. If we were big hikers, this would be a great place to stay. Not much else to do here but we did take a short walk around the visitor’s center garden. Nothing there we hadn’t seen before.
We were treated to a nice sunset on Simon’s evening walk. I thought about taking a swim. Wish I had. The showers in this state park were not very clean. I probably could have refreshed myself with a dip in the lake. The water was crystal clear and relatively warm.
Judith acted like she’d never seen anything like a tear drop trailer before. She was trilled to know you can actually get one yourself! She was very gracious to let us take her picture for our LG Inquiries category. I told her about golittleguy.com where she can learn all about their tear drop trailers.
We didn’t set up our 5×7 where we intended Simon to sleep. Now that his skin has cleared up, he doesn’t scratch or lick anymore so he’s welcome inside at night. He starts here, then moves around ending up between us in the morning. There’s plenty of room for all of us.
We’d just settled in for the night, when Susan said, "It should be calm tonight." Just after she said that the wind started picking up and got stronger and stronger and stronger! I jumped out to check and started tossing things that could blow away into the back of the truck. There was the ground cloth, Sterilite plastic containers, chairs, towels, our fold up table, and various assorted items just thrown in. We even had to put the solar panel away for fear it would get damaged.
Well I guess we’re all packed up and ready to go this morning.
Tip: don’t temp fate unless your ready to deal with it.
So we stopped at the alien museum and research center in Roswell. It was hot so we were very happy that Simon was welcome inside. The displays show what happened there in 1947, the eye witness descriptions, photos and the alleged government coverup. We got there too late to see the movie. You could spend alot of time there and then deciding for yourself what to believe. Simon was creeped out by the aliens that created smoke and noise, so we left.
Thought we’d treat ourselves to a DQ since it was Happy Hour. If you are ever in Roswell, don’t go there.
It’s a lot warmer than we are used to. At least the solar panel is charging great. So good that we’re afraid it might be doing too well. We asked on T@G Your It FB group if it’s possible to over charge the battery. We got a reply that yes it is possible. So now we’re investigating something called a solar charging regulator. Who knew!?
Our Little Guy Travels 