On the road again today. A slow start out of Montrose with trying to see everyone and tell them goodbye. Finally got out of town at noon and headed to Grand Junction. Did find a Best Buy store in Grand Junction so we stopped in to check on our digital camera that we bought 17 days ago. After explaining the problem with the "geek", his reply was "oh, that happens frequently, all we can do is send it back to the factory". When confronted with a receipt that we bought it just 17 days ago in Anchorage, his reply was "oh, we only have a fourteen day return policy". Explaining to him that it was on the fourteenth day that it quit working and that it took us three days to find a store there should be an exception. Yea, right. But, your mother came to the rescue by simply saying, "can we speak to your supervisor". The supervisor appeared, within five minutes we had a new camera in hand and headed out the door.
Been through this part of Utah on many occasion, I believe the last time as with Heidi, however the rock formations never cease to amaze me. The top picture is of course of Dutch standing in front of a old cedar tree, directly behind him is a cliff that drops down about two hundred feet. The other rock formation is part of the Dragon's back. The bottom two pictures are down the road a piece, that is Terry walking across the Great Sand Dunes just 15 miles Northeast of Alamosa, Colorado. The second picture will show you how fast the mountains rise directly behind the sand dunes.
Tonight, I again sitting in my truck blogging. However, I am right outside my motel door. Inside the room, I was getting either no or a very low signal strength. Came outside with it and it picked up to full strength. A stairway sits in front of our window and evidently blocks the signal. That is all right, we are self sufficient. I now have a power converter in my truck where I can even plug in my hair dryer! Why operate on a battery when you got electricity! Tomorrow, we are going to visit the high country of Utah, we have four National Parks all adjoining one another so we are going to get a daylight start in order to see some game and then spend the entire day cruising these parks but on a southward course towards Arizona and the grand daddy of all canyons.
The boys did good hunting this year in Colorado. Steve Miller got a Royal Bull Elk, six points on each side earlier this fall. Deer season opened on Saturday, this is a permit drawing hunt in Colorado now. Jessie's daughter drew a permit and got a four point buck on opening morning. Steve Miller hunted dads old hunting grounds up on Soap Creek and got a 4 x 3 point buck.
Ranger Bill gave me a class on "Suzie", she has more tricks than I realized. She even tracks your current speed, your average speed,so when you a trooper pulls you over you can show him your GPS reading, the one problem it also shows the highest speed obtained, mine currently reads 90.1 mph. I think I remember, coming out of the Great Sand Dunes, a sixteen mile stretch of straight road, a secondary road leading back to the main highway, not a car in sight for twelve miles so I though it would be a good time to blow the carbon out since we had been idling along for the past 5,000 miles or so. Pre-dawn comes early and if we are going to be in the hunting area at daylight, best sign off. See you on down the road. By, the way if your are looking on a map where Richfield is, we are just a short drive northeast of Beaver, Utah! We could have went into Beaver for the night, but we did not want to intrude upon Ranger Bill's trapping territory. All take care.
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