Liters and Meters and KPH Oh My!

If you have been following us, I suspect you are probably still trying to digest the trade we made, but let me just say we get happier every day. We have been completing little projects to personalize it which makes it really feel like home. Some new rugs, pictures on the walls, new towels and so on  We just could not be happier. 

So we are smaller now but in my twisted vision of reality I was led to ponder just how much space we were actually living in. What is our real footprint on the planet? 

To determine that I suggested the most accurate method of determining the actual volume of the RV would be to close all the windows and open the skylight. Climb onto the roof and fill the RV with water a gallon at a time until full. 

That would give us an exact measure including all the intricate nooks and crannies.

Unfortunately Cindy vetoed that approach 🤯 citing some lame concern about the warranty. So sticking to the principal of " happy wife, happy life 🥰", I decided to use measurements instead, but feel I have to add a disclaimer that the size referenced is approximate at best. 

Consider if you will that we are living in a total of  2112 cubic feet, or 1056 cubic feet each. (if you want that in cubic meters, I suggest Google).

But how to put that into proper perspective? Some quick research revealed that given this measurent we each have the space of 6.7 average commercial elevators.

That seems pretty doable.

Or how about 12.4 porta jons. That seems like a pretty expansive pool of the blue waters.

Perhaps what we might best be able.to visualize is that Cindy and I each get the equivalent interior space of 10.4 Volkswagen Beatles.

Considering all that has been done in the backseat of just one Beatle... But I digress. 

Suffice to say I feel like we have the space of a mansion

with only a 25' 8" footprint on the ground. How cool is that!

As for Canada we are really loving it... Except for the prices that is. I am just going to come out and say it, no Canadian should ever complain about the exchange rate when in the US. The cost of everyday goods here is far higher than the exchange rate difference, that is at least for food and fuel which are staples you purchase everyday. 

For example, we like chicken breasts on the grill. In the US we were paying about $6 for a package. Same approximate size package here is $10 plus. 

Fuel is cool in that diesel is quite a bit cheaper than gasoline, but still we are seeing an average of $1.39 a liter (that is a bit over $ 5.39 a gallon). Given the pic below from a news story on Canada fuel prices, I guess what we are sering is actually pretty good for Canada prices.

Another eye opener is that the speed limits here seem to be slower than the US on average, yet it also seems few adhere to them.

For example, most of the final 15 KM to the park we are in is 50 KPH (or about 31 mph). In TX this road would be 60 MPH at least.

Twice I have been doing between 55 and 60 KPH along this stretch and been honked at, and one time a guy gunned his car and did a burn out to get around me.  I thought perhaps I was in an area of MPH speed limits, but the signs clearly say "Maximum 50 KPH".

Obviously my experience here is limited, but it seems many or even most are in a hurry, and not happy when I do the posted speed. 

On the flip side we have met some incredibly friendly people and have been enjoying the BC fruit harvest. We are eating fresh blueberries, strawberries and cherries about as fast as we can get them, and all are from little roadside farm stands where we can see the people actually picking them in the fields. Incredible! The picture above is an strawberry desert Cindy made. Yum!

The weather has been mostly in the 70s during the day, but very sunny and quite warm. At night we sleep with the windows open and it gets into the 50s.  Nice!

But I have to say, given the temps, I am amazed to see the unheated pool full of people and the local Cultus Lake Water park full. Cindy and I are dressed in layers, with a coat most of time and feeling pretty wimpy. The locals are certainly a hardy bunch. 

We are having a great time and really enjoying BC. This is the Canada Day long weekend so we plan to lay low and stay away from the tourist areas. Next week we will be back on the trails around this beautiful area, trying to avoid becoming bear vittels 😬

Until the next installment, stay safe and thanks for reading! 

Oh Canada (Can NAH dah) 😀

We made it to the promised land! About noon PDT we were granted access to this amazing country. We are currently at Cultus Lake in BC and will be here for 16 days!  Wow. 

Our journey was not without peril. Yesterday we realized we could bring only 1.5 liters of booze across the border, and we had about 20 gallons! Uh oh!

So our first move was to determine which bottles we could live without.  That took care of an old half bottle of triple sec and a pint of very cheap vodka we used for bloody marys.  Good start and only 47 more bottles to deal with.

Cindy decided to ask the front office if they would store a box or two for us. I was blown away when they said yes. So we grabbed one of those huge plastic storage bins and loaded it up. That issue solved. 

But since we now realized there were things we could not take with us, we decided perhaps a check of the border web site was in order. Were there other things?  Uh, yeah.

So you may know that this area of Canada is bear country. We knew and so prepared with a purchase of bear spray.  This is a strong pepper spray intended to thwart an attacking bear. But guess what you can't bring across the border.  Yup, bear spray.  I feel like my chances of returning to the US have been purposely lessened. Anyway, into the booze box with the bear spray. 

The next items we discovered were any fresh meats and vegetables.  Ugh.  We had just shopped and had quite a good selection.  So last night we made a valiant effort to eat everything banned including a very large salad and almost a whole bag of Mandarin oranges. Without being gross, let's say we were pretty successful, but I did have some extended reading time in the bathroom this morning. 

When we got to the border, we were not asked if we had meat or veggies, we were tested with questions such as when did you last visit Canada and where do you live.  Long story but I failed both 🤔

Anyway, perhaps the border guard could see the distress in my face from losing my liquor and spending too much time reading this morning.  Whatever the case, they let us in.

Our first Canada stop was Walmart ( because we ate everything the night before). The store was small and arranged very differently than any we have seen in the US. But with the exchange rate in our favor, the prices were very reasonable. So we have food again. I know you were probably concerned that we might starve and were ready to mail a care package but fear not, we will be just fine. 

Our destination was Cultus Lake Thousand Trails Preserve and the ride in was amazing. Cultus Lake is incredible with turquoise water and towering pines along the shores. 

The park itself is nestled in the hills amidst more of those pines and amazing vistas to the mountains. 

The sites are well shaded with full hookups, fire pits and picnic tables. 

  

We will be here for 16 days and plan to do some hiking, sightseeing, and did I mention we are in the middle of wine and berry country? Fresh produce stands and wineries all along the highway coming in which we will absolutely be visiting. 

Anyway, we are looking forward to a few down days, some evenings by the fire, and making a bunch of new memories here at The Next Hundred Miles 😀

Baby exposed....

So we have been unintentionally unfair about the reveal. We got so busy trying to find places for everything, and had such a mess, we didn't get around to taking pictures until today. Sorry!

As you can likely see already, we didn't get a dog 😀

We bought a new motorhome. So you may be asking, what was up with the baby reference?

Well, you probably know we had a 45' Class A coach that had a 5' wide motorcycle lift on the back, and we towed our Jeep behind that. Arguably in the world of RVs that made us about the biggest thing on the road. 

As we have been traveling we have quickly learned that not many state and county parks have easy access for a rig that size. Read that to say we don't get to stay in parks like Victoria Palms very often.

Please understand that there are plenty of big coaches and parks that cater to them. But we like trees and rivers and campfires. Rarely do the two align in a way that doesn't break the bank. 

So what to do? We thought long and hard about it, and many will say we are a little nuts, but we downsized... By 50% !!

The new "baby" is a 2019 Winnebago View 24D.  She is 25' 6", rides on a Mercedes Benz diesel sprinter chassis, and has the perfect floorplan for us. 

It has a full wall slide on the driver's side which holds a full booth dinette and a queen size Murphy bed.  When the bed is up we have a large comfy couch. Kinda the best of both worlds.

It has the biggest kitchen of anything in the class of RV and plenty or cabinets and a full pantry. 

It has all the necessities for extended boondocking (camping off the grid) from an Onan generator to factory installed solar. 

It even has a Truma tankless hot water heater with a hot water recirculating pump that provides instant and continuous hot water to every faucet. Read that as some incredible showers, and it sips propane. 

And all of this is riding on a Mercedes chassis that only gets serviced every 2 years or 20,000 miles, AND gets between 13 and 16 MPG (we have averaged 14.4 MPG while towing the Jeep behind. For reference the Entegra was averaging 7.5 MPG!

So call us crazy, but we are incredibly happy with our move, and we have found storage for everything (less a few Goodwill runs that is) 

So that's the deal and this is our new baby that is almost exactly half the size of the bus. 

We now look forward to many more ... Next Hundred Miles, and we'll do it in a more compact and agile way

By the way, there is no baby registry 😀 so please don't send gifts.

Been a little quiet - but we have news!!

We have a new baby 😀

Yes it's true, we have a new little bundle of joy in our lives 

I will send pictures shortly.

I know many may think we are too old to be starting over but let me simply say we could not be happier.  

I will send all the details tomorrow and get some pictures posted as well. 

For now just join us in celebration and be happy for us. 

More tomorrow...

The Dalles - Oregon

The view out our front window for the next two nights.

This is a free parking lot owned by the Army Corps (ACOE) on the bank of the Columbia River. Today is 65 and sunny, but winds gusting to 35 mph (see the whitecaps on the river). The winds are supposed to die down tonight and we are going exploring tomorrow.

Going to be a nice, quiet afternoon to relax and read a bit 📖 🙂

RV Earthquake - The Saga Part 3

On our saga of repairs the next thing that reared  it's ugly head was our electric flush toilet. (no pun intended)

In RVs the toilets deposit into a holding tank affectionately called the black tank. Nuff said. 

There are two types of RV toilets, one that has a foot pedal to open the trap door and flush it with water, and the other has an electric push button that does everything electrically. By the way, the electrically flushed toilets typically have a macerator pump (grinder) to aid in decomposition of waste in the black tank between dumping. (I hope you are not reading this over breakfast 😀)

This all began when I went to flush the electric toilet and it emptied the bowl but did not refill with water. Hmmm, that's unusual. This thing actually has an electronic control circuit in it to make sure it all works in the correct sequence and always has enough water to "clear" it out.

Since the bowl did empty, the first part of the cycle, but did not refill with water, the second part of the cycle, logic says either we have no water, or the control module is freaking out. A quick check of the sink confirmed we had water so I ruled that out. 

My first step in resolving problems is always to turn to Google. There is virtually nothing that can happen to me that hasn't already happened to someone else, usually hundreds of "someone elses".

Sure enough there are reports of a little 1/2 inch screen in the water line picking up debris and halting water flow. Bingo, this must be the issue. 

So I began the tedious task of removing the 4 hidden bolts that hold the toilet to the floor. Of course someone at the manufacturer decided these should not have typical bolt or screw heads, rather they would somehow be better with allen heads on them. In case you are not familiar with the term, an allen wrench is the little L shaped, octoganal assembly wrench that comes with the huge bookcase you buy from Walmart that comes in a box the size of a cerial box and notes on the outside "some assembly required" 😀 It usually includes and allen wrench. 

After 30 minutes of turning each of the 4 screws a quarter of a turn at a time, I was finally ready to pull it away from the wall and find this little screen that had caused me all this trouble.

Now  you have to realize that behind and under the toilet are a mass of hoses and wires. They seem to make everything so complicated and try to squeeze it all into the smallest space possible. I assume that someday in the future, when humans are extinct, aliens will find our planet and immediately assume we must have been a microscopic race because we crammed everything into such small spaces. But then I digress.

As I started perusing through the hoses and wires looking for the elusive screen, I found a mysterious electrical connection which was connected to nothing.  Further searching uncovered what looked like it's mate. 

Ok, so let's be real here. There is no possible way this could be the fix, and how would it have become disconnected with everything packed in the space so tightly. But I had to connect it and try.

Believe it or not, it worked!

I can only suspect that it had not been fully connected when originally installed at the factory and simply took this long to come apart. Or perhaps my alien theory was reversed and the aliens are actually a micro race and have a mission to disconnect connections in random small places to frustrate humans. Hmmm 👽.

Anyway, it works and has continued to work since. Just when you think you have this logic thing down pat you discover some times logic doesn't hold up and illogical things happen. 😟

The next installation in our continuing saga will be the the mysterious disconnecting sink drain. 

Thanks for reading!

RV Earthquake - The Saga Part 2

In our saga of repairs, the second thing that decided to give us heartburn was our shore power electric cord reel.

Virtually every RV, from pop-ups to buses, has a cord to connect to campground electric service. These come in many types and sizes depending on the electrical requirements of the RV. The simplest are like big extension cords that plug into the RV on one end and the campground electrical service on the other.  When not in use they are simply coiled up and stored away in the RV. 

The most extravagent type is permanently connected to the RV and fed out and retracted using an electric reel that is supposed to keep the cord neat and tidy, and simplify the process of setting up and tearing down at each campsite. 

Of course we have the latter. 

I suppose perhaps the first question is 'are these really necessary'. As a guy I say heck yes!  They are no less a survival requirement than snake skin boots or chrome wheels on your car. It's a guy thing 😀

Anyway, upon arrival at our campsite, when I plugged into the power, nothing happened. So what do you do? You call the campground to come fix their power. 

When they come out and tell you their power is fine, you stick your head in the sand and ask for a different site. You pack everything back up, ready the RV and move. You do this because certainly it can't be an RV problem and must be the campground power. Even though the maintenance guy just checked it and said it is working he must be mistaken  It's a guy thing. 😀

But when you get moved and find the exact same issue, the light finally comes on in your head (but not in the RV) and you have no choice but to begrudgingly concede there might be a problem with your RV. 

So the first thing to understand is that the modern RV is fairly complex. The power comes in via a massive power cord, through the internal connections of this electric reel, into a voltage checker and surge protector, and on to a transfer switch. And all of this is before it connects to anything useful inside the RV. So if there is power at the campground plug, but nothing inside the coach, which one of these gems is dropping the ball?

Not sure if I mentioned it or not but I am a guy. We tend to jump into diagnostics looking at the most expensive part first. Sometimes we even replace the most expensive part before realizing that was not the culprit. It's a guy thing 😀

But with the new found extra time that retirement affords me,  I broke tradition and performed a thorough diagnosis. That indicated it was the cord reel that was the issue.  

I am going to simplify the technical side of this.  Inside the cord reel are a set of contacts. They allow the reel to spin while keeping the cord connected to the RV. I suspected one or more of these had failed, thus breaking path for the flow of electric to the RV. 

This reel is not intended to be repaired so they rivet everything together.  I spent an hour drilling out rivets and disassemblimg the reel. Sure enough, when I got inside to where I could inspect the contacts, one was badly burned.  

I called the manufacturer to order replacement parts only to be told they don't sell parts because the reels are not supposed to be repaired. You have to buy a new one and they are only $800 plus. $75 shipping!  Ugh.

So back to the drawing board. I decided that if I  could clean up the contacts perhaps I could make it serviceable again. So I attempted to sand down the contacts. I worked for about an hour sanding and polishing and actually got it to work.  And believe it or not, I carry rivets and a rivet gun (it's a guy thing 😀) so I was able to reassemble it as good as new.

Of course there is always a chance this could happen again, but for the moment it is working and all is well. 

The next installment in our "Saga" will be about our electic flush toilet. 

In the meantime I am considering changing the blog name to "The Next Hundred Dollars" 😀

Thanks for reading!

Oregon - and trees instead of rocks

We set out a bit over 6 weeks ago to head to the Pacific Northwest. I believe we have actually made it. 

Neither of us having ever spent any real time in Oregon, we had a shared vision of tall pines with a backdrop of snow capped mountains. As we drove out of Idaho and into Oregon, around the Ontario area on I-84, it looked more like Utah than our vision.  But fortunately that soon changed.

So here we are at Emigrant Springs SP which is almost directly on the Oregon Trail. The trees are tall, the mountains in the backdrop are snow capped and the weather has been incredible.  The only issue we have had is that we are on Pacific time and it gets dark about 10p and is light again by 5a.  But the sky is blue, daytime temps in the 70s and around 40 at night. Fantastic!

Today we went to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and actually hiked along a good part of the trail. The volunteer host came out and gave us a ton of stories and insights about life in the 1800s. Things like the incredible numbers who died along the trail and how they got up and down hills. Seems that oxen were the pulling teams of choice. They were relatively docile and could be eaten when things got tough. They had a very limited time to get out of the mountains before the snows came which mandated they travel more than 20 miles per day. 

Interestingly the trail was used well after the pioneers.  During the gold rush it became a major cargo path and helped to develop the west.  Even as late as the the 1900s the trail was used for automobiles, Model A's we're mentioned, because there were no roads yet built in the area. So they drove their jitneys along the same trails the pioneers blazed. 

We hiked a good part of the area including heavily forrested, meadows and even along a stream for a while. Of course my "city boy" came out and I had to ask the host if we would be in any danger hiking.  Apparently there actually are bears, an established wolf pack and some pesky badgers. We actually have bear spray but we conveniently left it in the RV. Great planning and lousy execution. In the end we saw nothing but some large hoof tracks we sumized we're elk, so all was well.

On Friday we continue west to The Dalles for a couple of days and then to our first PNW 2 week stay in Chehalis Washington. I am certainly looking forward to that. 

A few pictures here -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/WwxqrzA1UWDeq69ZA

Thanks for reading and following our journey along... The Next Hundred Miles.

RV Earthquake - The Saga

So they say that every time you drive your RV down the road, it is like your house going through an earthquake. That's an interesting view and perhaps not far from accurate. 😭

As you know I spent every weekend leading up to retirement diligently working on the coach. I tweaked and tightened and adjusted and tried to make everything as perfect as I could. That work likely has saved us a lot of grief, but unfortunately you can't pre-fix everything. 

So for those interested, I will recap the unexpected repairs we have had to make along the way. The first was our Aquahot.

Aquahot is a great system. It provides endless hot water and also heats the coach and the coach floor. It also heats the entire basement so we can camp in some pretty cold weather without worry of frozen plumbing. 

It is powered by both 110v electric and a propane burner. The electric works fine for daily use, even showers, but is not enough for coach heat. That's when you are supposed to kick on the propane burner. 

So we arrive at Capital Reef, high in the mountains of Utah. The average daytime temps are in the 60s and mid 30s at night. They predicted some nights below freezing and we had several sleet storms during the day. 

This national park is absolutely beautiful, but it has no utilities. Thus we were relying on the generator and solar to charge our batteries which will run everything in the coach except the heat pumps, or the electric side of the Aquahot. But that's where the propane side of the aquahot takes over and all is well... when it works that is.

It seems the internals in the aquahot are quite sensitive to voltage fluctuations. So they install devices called buck-boosts. Their purpose is to "buck" or lower voltage that is too high, or "boost" voltage that is too low, thus keeping everything happy.  

When I turned the Aquahot burner on, nada.  So out come the tools and off comes the Aquahot cover. I traced the circuits to determine what wasn't happening. I discovered the furnace burner fan wasn't coming which causes the burner to turn off after 10 seconds as a safety. Tracing that circuit I found a blown fuse. Ha, I've got this. We did have to make a run to purchase a new fuse but expected it should be easy after that. 

We got back with the fuse. I powered everything down and installed the fuse. When I turned the power back on, BANG! The buck-boost unit for the fan literally exploded. It didn't do any additional damage, except to my heart, but it was obvious this was not repairable. 

I called Aquahot support and explained what had happened. They walked me through a couple of troubleshooting steps to assure nothing else was damaged. All was good, I just needed the "new and improved" replacement buck-boost. Ok, where can I get that I asked.  The answer was "from us". No distributer had these and they had to be shipped from the manufacturer.  Ugh!

The next place we could align shipping was 2 weeks away. Since we had no choice, we placed the order. Unfortunately that left us with no heat or hot water except when we could run the generator which was 2 hours in the morning and 2 more in the evening. 

But even with no heat or hot water we survived just fine. We spent most of our days out hiking and at night we have an electric blanket. It was actually pretty nice. We warmed the coach before bed with the generator, slept with the electric blanket, and then warmed it again in the morning during generator hours before leaving for our daily hike.  Our basement is very well insulated and we never saw temps in the basement below 40 so everything went ok.

We received the buck-boost shipment a couple weeks after and all is working again. By the way, the Aquahot has 2 buck-boost units and I replaced both 😁.

For us this was almost a fun adventure. We learned what we could do in a pinch and made the best of it. In fact Capital Reef was so great, we would do it again even knowing we would be challenged for heat and hot water. 

The next repair installment will cover the virtues of the power electric cord reel. 

Thanks for reading!

Back on line.. but

So we are back on line but realize I now have so much to tell and so many pictures, I would need to write a book. 

So instead of boring you with my over the top explanations and stories, I am going to try a new approach. 

Here I will show a brief overview of each location and provide a link to the pictures. That way you can read a few words and decide if you want to see pictures or not. Hopefully this will be easier to digest than 23 pages of text and pictures. 

1) Sandia Peak - Albuquerque

We spent the entire day hiking the mountain. You will see rocks, snow, cliffs, gorges, an abandoned look out building and a ski resort with the highest gondola in the US. Fantastic last day in the Albuquerque area. 

Sandia Peak -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/hLFrzRQx3gaJ291M7

2) Farmington NM - Casino

In case you didn't know, I am really old and have an adversion to driving more than 4 or 5 hours a day. So when we have a long trek between planned stops we try to find a free place about half way to stay for the night. Typically this is a Walmart but this time we found a very nice casino with a huge paved lot.  In case you are not aware, most Walmarts, Cracker Barrels, Cabela's, Bass Pros and many others allow overnight RV stays as do most casinos.  So just a stop along the way, but still a quiet and restful night for us

Casino -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/VgTyQT1iVud1tSabA

3) Moab Utah - the stop that wasn't

We had high hopes for Moab and fully expected to get a site in a first come dry camping area. Unfortunately we didn't know there was an off road event in Moab that weekend and there was not a site to be had anywhere. Even the BLM land boondocking areas were full. You could not spit without hitting some kind of ATV or 4WD something or other. It was crazy. We parked for a couple of hours, made some phone calls and finally decided to head about 2.5 hours east to Grand Junction Colorado. Even that far away everything was booked but we found a park that had electric and water in their overflow section so we booked it and hit the road. 

No Pictures

4) Grand Junction, CO

As noted this was completely unplanned,but we needed a place for a couple of days until our next reservation. While there we decided to check out the Colorado National Monument which is an incredible NP which is much like the Grand Canyon. We hiked around the cliffs and found some incredible sites. We also did a little shopping, a little sightseeing and got rested up. Given what a pain it could have been, it actually worked out pretty well. 

Colorado National Monument -   https://photos.app.goo.gl/DoLxRnnnDfWcVWbU9

5) Capital Reef  NP 

Our plans had us in Moab for 4 days and then Capital Reef for the next 4. So when we got diverted to Grand Junction, Cindy jumped on line and was able to make a second reservation for 2 more nights. This meant we had to move to another site in the middle of our stay, but it also let us pull out of Grand Junction after 2 nights and get back on schedule. Capital Reef is one of the hidden treasures of the US. Very few people there and just jaw dropping beautiful. Not everything went perfectly as can be the case with an RV but check out the photos. We hiked every day and did some off roading in the Jeep. This was an incredibly cool place. ( A separate post forthcoming about the RV issues -fun!)

Driving the back country -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/eUju8av4rCzi3bbP7

Hiking the Grand Wash -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/qw6TvPTQygyM8kTg7

Cassidy Arch -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/iBVnTTWpfEZRfY7q9

6) Zion Canyon NP

This was yet another incredible stop for a few days. This is by far the best organized and run NP in the US. We hiked the first 2 days all over Zion  on the second day, we decided to venture off the highway and check out some BLM land where we had seen some people camping.  It would have been way too rough to get the RV in there but the Jeep loved it.  We drive about a half mile back into the area and suddenly we're at the edge of an incredible canyon along the Virgin river.  We parked there and sat on the edge of the canyon and ate our picnic lunch.  We chilled for the next two days and hung by the RV Park. I spent one full day washing the RV and then the following day waxing it. (I think we need a smaller RV!)

Hiking Zion -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/WehKT5jXrvTCRMLS7

7) Willard Bay SP - Utah

This stop was in a beautiful state park about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. It was a very pretty setting, impeccably maintained with lots of trees. And the entire park was bordered by a unique fresh water lake which was separated from the Great Salt Lake by only a dam/Levy. The only downside was that the other side of the park bordered on I-15. Honestly we spent most of our time outside, had campfires and even cooked one meal over the fire, and the highway noise just faded away. It was very pleasant and we enjoyed our time there.

Willard Bay SP -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/AJvQYxNNBZhzyLLx5

8) Onward to Idaho - FT Running Bear

Have you seen the Sound of Music? Ever wondered what it would be like to park your RV there and spend a few days?  Well I swear that's where we are. Nestled on the top of a mountain, overlooking a mountain reservoir and surrounded by snow capped mountains in the distance. And talk about quiet... Wow!  

The temps up here are 60s during  day and 40s at night. Incredible sleeping in utter silence with the windows open. 

We took a day trip to the Thousand Falls area near Hagerman ID. What a hidden gem this place is. Note that most of the water you see is from springs not rivers. All of the waterfalls are springs and the water looks like something from the Caribbean. 

Box Canyon - https://photos.app.goo.gl/zFHqypxfYwEyYzYbA

Ritter Island -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/vBTz3cTTAvKrETkz5

Malad Gorge -  https://photos.app.goo.gl/XG7rezSjBpMAVn9w7

That's it...

I will put up a second post for those who want to know the dark side of living in a motorhome where I will expose the never ending cycle of "fix what broke today".

Feel free to comment or ask questions. We are loving our retirement and find amazing discoveries at every turn... along the Next Hundred Miles.