Day 61: Sun, Nov 18, 2018 - Arrived home!

Sunday, Nov 18

Drove from Zanesville, oh to home via route 70/81/78 in PA…don’t do that again…too congested…route 80 is better!

Day 59: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 - Driving home!

Day 59: Fri, Nov 16  

Leave SHOW LOW for NY….EARLY…like 6am...big push to get home.  We never go slow when we are headed out or in!

Overnight parking at  Walmart, Chandler, OK:  small and maybe not the quietest and about 2.5 miles from route 44!  Would avoid if I could and try another.

Day 48 - 58: Nov 5 - 15, 2018 - Graham and Melissa land near Show Low, AZ

Day 48 - 58: Mon, Nov 5 - 15

Burning debris today…fire season is coming.  More rock picking/volcanic spew. Relaxing/visiting.

Day 46: Sat, Nov 3, 2018 - Little Egypt to ONP cattle round up site

Day 46: Sat, Nov 3

Last night around 1:30 am the wind kicked up A LOT but within a half hour it had moved somewhere else (a good thing).  But I had not managed to go back to sleep by 3:30 am (my head was awake, never good…wouldn’t shut up) and the wind came back with a vengeance.  Some of the gust were really strong and the sand of this area was kicking up.  It was windy enough to wake David up....and that takes a LOT.  He went outside to pull in the solar panels and check on things.  I watched him out the window as dust was flying like crazy. We decided that neither of us would sleep with that much wind smacking us around in the open area so we moved down the hill to the Little Egypt Geological site.  The site was down hill and had more protection as opposed to being out in the open.  It was 5am so to buy some sleeping time I fed Mali hoping to buy and hour or so sleep time and she gave me 2.5 hours!  I woke the wee beastie at 8:15.  The wind was still blowing but not quite as hard as last night….but we moved up to our original site where we had left the jeep and some things.

David and Mali attempted to hike MT. Ellen (11,500 feet…the sound of me gasping for air) in the Henry Mountains and I did not.  I don’t do well at high elevations no matter how acclimated I have become. I had a free day!  Walking, baking a double batch of chocholate muffins and napping after last night.  Unfortunately for them, too much snow for the jeep tires made him start walking about 2 miles before the trailhead.

When the snow got to be a foot deep (no gators) and it was becoming to much work to just walk (while Mali danced around on TOP of the snow…hahaha), David bailed vowing to save it for earlier some year (and then I will go too).  We decided to not stay another night at Little Egypt because it was still windy and we didn’t want to be blown around again.  There was even sand IN the motorhome when all windows were shut tightly.  We drove from Little Egypt and stopped quickly in Natural Bridges National Park (got rid of some trash, took 5 gallons of water but they were closed) and it was going to be dark soon.  We had been there before.  $7 on the old guy pass would have gotten us a spot to park but we declined (no dump station). Found a suitable spot at a cattle round up site at the corner of route 261 (moki Dugway) and route 95 and it was less than 2 miles from the National park. Dinner, polish poker.

Day 45: Fri, Nov 2, 2018 - Little Egypt/BLM lands Utah

Day 45: Fri, Nov 2

Early bug out from Notom Road and drive to Hanksville, UT to get some services…like gas for Jeep, minor food, WIFI.  We landed in Little Egypt by lunchtime.   We rebuilt the pathetic campfire ring that came with our free BLM Dispersed campsite and cleaned it out…we are fire ready.  A trip down the road to Little Egypt Geological site for about 1.5 hours.  Relaxing for happy hour.  Make pizza/gluten free for dinner and salad and Green River watermelon.  Campfire.  Polish poker/I won.

Day 44: Thurs, Nov 1, 2018 - Notem Bullfrog Road/BLM lands

Day 44: Thurs, Nov 1

Today is more canyon hiking/exploring.  Since we are low on jeep gas we picked the closest ones to explore.  Sheets Gulch  was our choice for today…should be an easy walk.  It was but I am out of condition/health reasons not enough exercise but things are looking up.  When we hit a choke stone and water, I was done.  David, ever the problem solver, decided to find a way around; I made my way back slowly to the Jeep with Mali.  Mali presented her own challenges before we got back to the wash.  

Every rock shelf she wanted to jump up on and EVERY bush in her mind has a rodent or something that moves under it and she is going to get it (none yet).  David showed up maybe ½ hour after I got back.  We took a quick Jeep ride on the wash to Cottonwood Canyon; I procured some colorful rocks for my landscaping.  We then decided to take  a run to Capitol Reef National Park (with our trash…something that is hard to get rid of in these parts).  I bought David a little apple pie at their shop and a bag of tortilla chips and all the trash was deposited.  

The campground there was now on walk in only and we were both surprised to see that it was only ¼ full. We were disappointed but not surprised to see that the orchards had all been picked; it was about 9 miles away from our boondocking spot.  Dinner and a campfire and polish poker.  Making plans for tomorrow.  We both agree that Notom Road needs more exploring…for another time.