Logan Utah

We are in Logan, UT for a couple months. Carole is the Costume Shop Manager for the Utah Festival Opera (UFO)  this season. So far we really like Logan, it seems to be much cooler than St.George (good for Me), and the Humidity is much higher (good for Carole). As it turns out My nephew Derrick is getting married in Northern Idaho mid July (good for him). Any way, I’m going to go up there in a week or so and help get things ready for the wedding. Then Carole will drive up in a new (used) car we got to trade to Her son, Seth, so she can get her Miata back. That will happen the day before the wedding as her job with the UFO ends on the 13th and the wedding is on the 14th. After the wedding we will drive to Seattle and trade cars, drive back to Idaho, then to Logan, then back to St.George, just in time for the hottest part of the summer there. It’s looking like there are a few people checking in on the Full Montero so I will try and post here a bit more regularly. Unfortunately there aren’t any pictures to post with this one.

Here are a few pictures of my custom install of the 100 watt inverter into the dash of the Discovery.

Settled

It looks like we’ve settled in St.George, Utah for now. Carole has ended up with gainful employment at Dixie State College. We may be looking to buy a house in the area, but for now, we are living in our trailer in an RV park so we don’t feel pressed to buy anything too quickly.

Trail ride in Nevada

Went out with a few other people yesterday. Had two College students here on spring break from Tennessee with us. I also put the route on “Every Trail” you can find it here.We had a great day seeing a few different places with Anasazi rock art.

We also went to an area of Hobgoblins, the erosion patterns are very amazing and imagination inspiring. I did more walking out there than I have for a while, even got in a little rock scrambling and experienced a small slot canyon

Bert’s 50th

For my birthday I decided to go out with a group of people and do a bit of off-roading. I had a wonderful time. Can’t think of much better to do on this day. After I got back Carole took me out to Outback For dinner. Very nice meal. All in all it was a very good Birthday. Here are a few pictures of my day out.

On our way to Utah

Well here we are part way to Utah. Before we left Lewiston We got some new “Old Man Emu” shocks and springs for the Land Rover to make it easier to tow our camper trailer. I got the parts from Great Basin Rovers in Salt Lake City. On the Way down we had to stop by there and return a few Extra parts. Met Bill,Shawn & Tom. They seem to be good folks who are very knowledgeable and generous, as well as quite friendly. Highly recommend GBR if you need things for you Land Rover.   We just discovered that as we slept in Provo last night we got about an inch of snow…Surprise,surprise. We ended up getting out of Boise a bit later than we wanted when we stopped for gas I noticed a puddle of coolant under and a bit of steam emanating from under the hood. It was a hose clamp on the radiator that was evidently leaking. Replaced that and started out only to find out that we lost more coolant than I realized. We had to go back to Boise and buy more coolant. I havent got much in the way of photos on this trip but will try to get something posted soon.

Thinking of places to go in the future.

If there is anyone who would like to see more posts here please let me know.

 

Eagle Creek and Craig Mountain

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Well, we are still in Lewiston now. Not sure for how long, indefinitely maybe. At any rate I’ve decided that I will still Post occasionally as I do thing that I feel are or might be of any interest.

A couple of weeks ago we took a drive down Eagle creek to the Salmon river with the intent of doing a little gold panning. Unfortunately the river was so high there wasn’t any beach to be seen in the area. There were a lot of logs and other debris in the water which was moving very quickly. I think I enjoyed the hour and forty minute drive down the 11 mile “road” much more than Carole did. I’m thinking I might try it again in the not too distant future. I suspect Carole won’t be too interested in going with me this time. I’m also thinking we might go out to the Emerald creek Garnet area again sometime this summer.

A few days ago we tried to go out to the Craig mountain habitat management area and watch the Perseid Meteor showers. We were up till after 12:30 am and we saw about 3 meteors then gave up. I think the full moon might have been a hindrance given how light it seemed to be out all night. We still ha a good time out there and I got to pick and eat a bunch of Thimble Berries for my Breakfast.

Yreka CA & Medford OR

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We went to Ashland OR and looked around town a bit then had dinner at The Black Sheep Pub. It was a good time but Carole didn’t care for her Lamb Stew. Then we went on down to Yreka,CA to see the fabled Yreka Bakery, which evidently doesn’t exist any longer. We wanted a photo of the sign simply because “YrekaBakerY” is a Palindrome. In spite of it not being there we drove around a bit and talked to a lady that worked in a little book shop that was apparently down the street from where the bakery used to be. She told us that it was scheduled to become yet another business, so we took a photo of the white shop front that used to be it. Then we stumbled onto a forest service office and decided we would drive back out to the coast at Eureka,CA this would be about 250 miles through the forest with several places to camp along the way. Late in the evening Carole decided she wanted to go back to Ashland and Tour the costume shop at the Shakespeare theatre and talk to the shop manager about possible work. After that we went on into Medford to find a spot to get on the internet and have some lunch. At one point while turning around I noticed there seemed to be a bit of extra resistance on the steering wheel. Then it was fine, then several lights on the dash came on. We drove for aboiut another 5 blocks when we pulled into a Les Schwab shop to investigate what might be wrong. I noticed the pulley on the front of the crank shaft was at an angle. We then called AAA to tow us to Ken Scales Automotive. It turned out that a shear pin between the Crankshaft pulley and the Timing drive sprocket Smeared out and ruined the Timing drive sprocket. $500.00 later we decided to go back to Lewiston. So…here we are. Not sure what the future holds or how often we might be posting here now. We’ll just have to see. After we got home we did realize that God was looking out for us so that we didn’t break down out in the forest areas of northern CA where we wouldn’t have had any phone coverage and undoubtedly would have had a long walk.

Newport OR and Yaquina Head lighthouse

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Well, we are home by now but there are a few more photos to post so here is one set of them. I’ll fill you in on why we are home in Idaho later but for now suffice to say things went south but we didn’t. We did have a very good time in Newport. If you go there We strongly recommend stopping in at Nana’s Pub, near Nye Beach, very nice little place with great atmosphere. Say “hi” to Danny if you see him there (he’s one of the local patrons who was very colorful in his conversation). Enjoyed the Celtic festival a lot. Met some very nice people and it was overall a great time. We also went to the Newport Aquarium which was very cool, I am kind of a big fan of aquariums though. the Leopard Sharks were  especially cool.  The lighthouse was quite interesting too, again we managed to climb to the top of the tower, seemed to be a bit easier than the Astoria Column. It was about 20 or so fewer steps but I think we also are getting a little more used to climbing all these steps.