Awake: 6:30am Temp 51 Mostly clear Overnight@ Grand Junction, CO
Today we travel. We’ve been parked here @ the big J campground for 9 days
under the shade of some large trees that spit off a sap residue. When I
climb my telescoping ladder to check our slide tops, I find a mess: twigs,
leaves & a residue of this sap stuff with dust & dirt. When our slides are
retracted for travel, this mess would be in our bedroom & living room if I
don’t clean it off. It takes over an hr to clean all 4 slide tops this
morning. During this time, Tom drops by to give us a pan of homemade
brownies to help keep us “healthy” during our travels & to fatten us up a
little more. It’s been a lot of fun hanging out with Tom &Marge & some of
their friends. You can’t find two better people; they’ve raised their
children right with lots of love & will do just about anything for you.
Because this campground is not really BIG RIG friendly, we ask the
(campground owner) to ask a lady to move her car (that shouldn’t be parked
in the site it’s in) so it’s easier for us to maneuver our bus. It is
done!
Then I make a cell phone call to check a possible campground near Salt
Lake City for availability, local weather forecast, etc. She warns us of
an approaching storm from the West with high winds & heavy rain later
today. We do not make a reservation.
We say goodbye to Curtis & Ana & leave the Big J campground @ 10:02am.
To begin with, it’s a beautiful travel day with a slight cornering
headwind on I-10 Westbound. Then as we get onto hwy 6 just west of Green
River, we meet up with construction, single lane traffic & a flagman who
stops us twice. Passing through the towns of Price (a fairly typical
Mormon community until the railroad came thru and coal mining replaced
ranching and farming) & Helper, Kathy reads aloud about the interesting
museums they have relating to the prehistoric times and early days of coal
mining; the CEU Prehistoric Museum, Western Mining and Railroad Museum,
Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, etc., something to keep in mind next time
we travel through this area.
The view as we’re climbing up to the Soldier Summit @ some 7200 ft is
breath taking; deep, yawning canyons, deserts, fascinating rock formations
& big rock walls. Then as we descend down to some 4000 ft into the Salt
Lake basin, we can clearly see the approaching storm clouds coming in from
the West.
Arrive @ the Quail Run RV Park in Sandy, Utah @ 3:26pm.
Today’s travel: 5+34 hrs 273.4 miles 32.5 gal 8.44 mpg 52.5
avg speed
The wind is howling as we park our bus & hook up our life support systems.
I get the ladder out & trim off a few nearby branches that were hitting
our coach with the wind gusts. Once inside, we breathe a sign of relief
that we are parked in a comfortable campground with good utilities.
Call my sister Corinne in Lilly, PA. She sounds like she is back to being
herself & that’s wonderful news for all of us.
7:50pm Dinner: Tuna steak, broccoli with Boursin cheese, fried noodles &
brown rice + a spinach salad. During our dinner, the winds get even
stronger & the heavy rain arrives.
Late evening: We watch the Travel channel on cable: “Unique Garages.”
Kathy didn’t pay very close attention to the detail of these masterpieces
for some reason. What she saw, she found quite interesting as were the
ones she didn’t see!
High temp while traveling=74 Lights out: 11:05
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