Category: Adventures

Mt Charleston is about an hour away and as it is at 7800ft it is about 20 degrees cooler than home.  There is a lodge at the top that has a big restaurant and about a dozen cabins.  We were lucky and found a vacancy in one of the cabins.  They are real log cabins with a great view and a big semi private deck.  There is an indoor fireplace, couches, hot tub and nice decorations.

We walked down to the Old Town of Charleston where there are a couple dozen houses, a small school, and library.  We also drove to Lee Canyon where the ski slopes are.  They have chairlift rides and Frisbee golf.  We have come here before for day trips to hike Cathedral Trail and Mary Jane Falls.  It can get very busy here in the summertime.

The Lodge is always has a LONG waiting list to get inside for dining.  They have a pretty standard menu and do a good job considering they are 30 miles from the nearest store.  There are hummingbird feeders all around and the view is worth the wait.

The small town really puts on a big show for the 4th of July.  The rotary club puts on a pancake breakfast followed by a parade and vintage plane fly over.   The planes fly in small groups and go right over the main street.

The parade is unique in my experience as there are wet and dry floats.  The dry floats are your typical entries of horses, marchers, classic cars and special interest groups.  The wet floats have water tanks on board.  The last 2 blocks turn into a giant water fight with the floats firing water at the crowd and the crowd shooting water at the drivers.  I have made the mistake of walking back from the store after the parade ended and had buckets of water thrown on me.

The park then puts on a 30 minute firework show.  They have a DJ pumping out crappy pop music and big crowds on the grassy areas.  We watched from down by the airport this year which avoided the traffic and loud PA speakers.

We drove to Yellowstone last week.  NV>AZ>UT>ID>MT>WY and back for over 2000 miles.  We rented a Mazda from National and stayed at a Best Western at the West Entrance.

I knew about Old Faithful that blows every hour or so but I did not know that there are hundreds of other geysers, vents, and springs.  It is a huge park and we only saw a small part of it.  You could spend weeks here. Some springs are constantly boiling and venting.  Some geysers go off regularly throughout the day.  Some are unpredictable and go off every 100 years.  Some smell like steam and others reak of sulfer.  Yellowstone gets swarms of small earthquakes causing some to speculate that the magma below could erupt at any time.

We saw buffalo, a small black bear, elk, and deer.  We did not see any moose or wolves.  I expected to see more rabbits and rodents than we did – maybe the wolves are to blame.

It was nice to see S and T up in Bozeman.  Thanks to K and A for watching Miss Lulu.

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The 3 T’s coordinated a shooting extravaganza in the desert for Fathers Day.  3 Generations were there giving the younger folk some safety training.  A good variety of tools were available for all to try out.  The 110F heat really made it interesting.

The new Benelli kicks like a mule but I discovered that is because I was using 1600fps ammo.  They say to drop it to under 1200fps for best results.   Remington makes a lower recoil 1000fps slug for target shooting.  Who has this in stock is the big question

Rob’s sisters were visiting their mother, Margie, at Lake Havasu from 06/07/2021 to 06/11/2021.

On the last day, they were able to stop by at our place for a photo opportunity of three siblings all together!

Margie has been wanting to see them all at the same time.  They look super happy!

It’s a Birthday Weekend for me!  Yay!

We are eating so much food today, from morning till night.  What a joy!

My dearest husband gave me the new Raycon earbuds which he must have remembered that I wanted! So sweet!!! 🙂

Thank you so much, and I love them!

Another fun Sunday Morning Bike Ride this morning!

A bit breezy yet it was such perfect temperature for riding this morning.

We encountered three animal species today other than regular “homo sapiens,” and they were Big Horn Mountain Sheep, Coyotes, and Geese!

Unfortunately we could not take photograph of Wylie Coyotes, but we managed to get pictures for Big Horn Mountain Sheep and Geese.  There Geese were not regular ones around here, must be on their way of seasonal migration travels.

We were able to see sheep in very close distance today.  They were too busy munching nice green grass 🙂

Way over by Grand Canyon West is a small town Mead View.  I don’t think anyone in town actually has a view of Lake Mead but it is where the Grand Canyon opens up into the lake.  Nice Joshua Tree forest on the way there.

Good day to take Precious out to the Dam.  She’s a 2008 HD Sportster 1200.  Race tuned, V&H pipes, bobbed, wrapped pipes, custom paint, raised bars, new seat.  She is loud and will catch you on fire if you are too close to the exhaust.  Owner #1 named her and did most of the work.  I did the seat, suspension, air intake. I also had to replace the primary chain / clutch assembly a few years ago when chain tensioner broke into a thousand pieces.

Biked out to Black Mountain in Henderson to check out the new trail they are cutting in the hillside.  Turns out there are large earth moving Caterpillar trucks on that road and the laws of physics apply.  (The larger object has the right of way).  So I backtracked and found some trails behind the state college.  I need to explore that area more along with some of the smaller trails off of the McCullough Hills Trail at Mission.