On Thursday, after posting the blog, we headed for Red Robin for lunch, but came across the Mudshark Brewery, and figured we would try a local restaurant instead of a chain. Decent food chicken wrap and bbq burger and good beer Scorpion Amber Ale and a Porter. We then stopped and talked to AT&T, Verizon and Cricket(bought by AT&T) about options to T-mobile, since AT&T has best area coverage. T-mobile is moving into the area. May get better coverage, but coverage is great in LHC, but drops off almost immediately.
On Friday, after phoning Dad we walked south then east up a wash canyon. We caught up with a couple from Tappen BC (just north of Salmon Arm) and had a long chat. They were out looking for gold with dousing rods (both of them had a set). After returning to the trailer, we watched the rest of the last round robin games in the Brier.
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| a baby arch |
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| interesting rock structure |
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| Fault Line |
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| the Lone Tree this wash is named after |
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| a natural Inukshuk |
Saturday morning we just did a short walk. Back at the trailer we talked to a fellow from Parksville. More curling.
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| Gold Capped Sparrows |
Sunday morning, we walked about 4 mile round trip up the south side of the wash heading up past the lone tree. We heard some target shooting over the ridge to our left, with an occasional heavy sounding gun. This may have been the source of a .43 shell the people from Tappen mentioned when we talked to them yesterday. In the afternoon, we enjoyed the NASCAR race and the Brier final.
On Monday, walked the catchment loop for an hour. We headed back to the library to do some research on our trip, and did a bit of shopping.
Tuesday morning we got everything packed up. The motor running the large slide was a bit sluggish, so we plugged into truck, and it went a bit easier. Could be battery was a bit low. We might have to use the generator a bit more often when we are on solar. We did have a couple of cloudy days this week, but we still seemed to be getting pretty good amps during the day. It could also be that it took a more power to raise the front of the trailer on the slope we were on when we set up. We drove to Big Bend of the Colorado State Rec Area just south of Laughlin, Nevada. They only had 3 sites available, were full last night. 2 sites were back-ins with utilities on the wrong side. The other site was a handicap reserved pull thru. However, they already had 2 handicap sites in use, so could let us have this one. We couldn't pay today because the lady that does credit cards isn't here until tomorrow. We saw 3 road runners and a couple of bunnies run through our site.
On Wednesday we walked to the entrance station to pay for 6 days. It turns out that they just converted to the pin credit card system, so Joan's card wouldn't work. As it happens, John's card has a 'pin failed' message on it too, so we wound up paying cash anyway. Hopefully we won't run into any more pin machines before we get back home to get our pins fixed.
After getting that sorted out we went for a walk through the scrub in the park, along the river. We were amused by Joan's comment that the trail through sandy areas was marked by tree 'crumbs' so we wouldn't get lost.
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| Swift water along the Colorado |
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| Tree 'Crumbs' marking the trail |
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| Laughlin from the Rec Area |
Thursday, we walked down to the beach at the day use area. 3 jet skis were being launched while we were there. Back at the trailer, we are watched the end of the first round of the Elite 10 curling from Victoria, while posting the blog. Fortunately, our T-mobile hotspot works very well here, since we are right across the river from Bullhead City in Arizona.
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| Big Bend of the Colorado beach |
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