Scenes Around the RV Park

Coalville, Utah        High 73 Low 52

Today we stayed around the RV Park. This morning it was actually a little on the chilly side. This afternoon it warmed up enough to be very pleasant. We slept with the windows open last night and it was nice. We have been enjoying the cooler weather. It is almost 10 degrees cooler here than Salt Lake City, probably because we are about 1500 feet higher in elevation that the valley.

It rained a little through the night and into this morning. After the rain quit I washed the trailer and truck. They both look better. I don't know if they allow it, but the Park manager drove by and didn't say anything. I decided it was better to ask forgiveness than permission in case they don't allow it.

This afternoon on one of our walks we took pictures of the RV Park. There are lots of shady sites, with a small river running through part of it.

Lots of good size trees.

Our site, it is nice and wide but not too long.

One of the other campers told me that his son caught two fish yesterday.

There is a trout pond belonging to the RV Park. It is a nice park with the exception of not having a club house. There also don't seem to be many activities. We are only about a mile from the small town of Coalville.

We also updated our US map and added Canada. The only state we didn't make it to that we could drive to was Rhode island. 48 out of 49 isn't too bad! (Hawaii wold be very hard to drive to, lol)

We hope to have the grand kids here tomorrow, but that depends on the weather.

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Back in Utah

Coalville, Utah          High 82 Low 57

We drove from Rawlins, Wyoming to Coaville, Utah today with light wind, not the 35 MPH winds that were predicted. They were supposed to start at about 11:00 so we were on the road by eight.

It was a 250 mile drive and we did have some road construction, but I don't think I've ever been across Wyoming without road construction going on.

With stops we were 5 1/2 hours to the CamperWorld Park here in Coalville. It is one of the Parks that we have a membership in. There don't seem to be very many RV Parks in Utah.

We plan on staying here until Monday. I guess its my last hurrah before going home.

We have a lot of things to do when we get home. Cindy has to sign up for Medicare, I have to get a Healthcare supplement (her State Health Insurance drops me when she turns 65), and we need to get our income taxes for 2014 from our accountant.

We will only be home for about 6 weeks, then we are headed to Albuquerque for the Balloon Fest with the Escapee Boomers. After that we are going to head to Florida with Cindy's sister Linda and their Mom. Lots of driving and while we are home I need to get new tires for the trailer. The ones on it have 2 1/2 years and 55,000 miles on them. I guess that's not too bad. It sure seems like we have been driving a lot since we retired.

I'll try to remember to get some pictures of this Park.

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Flat Tire, Oh No Pressure Pro, Yea

 

Rawlins, Wyoming          High 88 Low 54

Today we had just gone through Denver, when all of a sudden the Pressure Pro went off. Cindy was watching it and the tire pressure on one of the trailer tires went from 50, to 39, to 16 by the time I got stopped. While I was driving, I couldn’t tell anything was wrong. It looked like I must have run over something because there was a big hole in the middle of the tire. I can’t remember hitting anything, and I’m sure without the warning, we would have had major damage to the trailer. By the way, the traffic going through Denver was terrible. It was probably a sample of the traffic in Salt Lake City.

I got the bottle jack out before I decided to use the Level Ups to raise the side.

Later after we left Cheyenne there was an alligator in the road, and about a mile further a semi was pulled over with one of the fenders that cover the back wheels all tore up with just a rim on one of his axles. It is a good thing for the Pressure Pro to tell me when we had a flat.

As it is, the tire will have to be replaced. I only have one spare, so I’m hoping we make it the 300 miles or so till home.

We were going to stop in Laramie, but it was so early in the day, we decided to drive 2 more hours and make it to Rawlins. And this way we only have to boondock one night. There is enough wind that we should be OK tonight.

The following pictures are some of the scenery along I 80 after Laramie going west.

Tonight we are at Camp Walmart and are going into one of our home Parks in Coalville, Utah tomorrow and are going to stay there for a few days before going home. 

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Down Day

Monument, Colorado           High 79 Low 55

It was another nice day weather wise.

Today we kind of took it easy. Tomorrow we leave to head some more toward home. We will be somewhere in Wyoming, just not sure where, but probable Laramie. We have decided to go home by way of I 80 instead of I 70.

I have a few more pictures of the RV Park we are staying in.

Sorry about the short post.

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US Air Force Academy

Monument, Colorado      High 73 Low 54

We had a little rain but the weather has been great and right now it is clear and nice.

Today we went to the Barry Goldwater Visitor Center at the Air Force Academy. We watched a short film about the first year of the cadets’ lives. If you remember the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman” the new recruits are treated exactly like the movie portrayed. There were only a few things they were allowed to say. I don’t remember all of them but among them were “yes sir, no sir, I don’t know sir”. This gives an idea of their first while at the Academy. By the end of the first year they are treated much better. There are several places the Academy code is displayed.

 Among the displays is a history of the Academy.

In the movie, part of the training showed some of the recruits going up in a glider, one of which is hanging from the ceiling of the Visitor Center.

There is a copy of the plans for the Chapel, a very different style of church that is located on the Academy grounds. I counted 17 pointed spires on it.  

We also found it interesting to learn about the Academy’s mascot, the falcon. There is also a lifelike carving of a falcon on display that took the artist 550 hours of labor to complete. It is out of a solid piece of wood.

There is a display of one of the rooms of two of the cadets. Cindy told me why the coins were on the beds. A properly made bed is tight enough that the coin bounces. I didn’t know that.

We walked the .3 miles to the Chapel, and got some interesting pictures of the inside and outside. We thought it interesting about the wooden picture called the Marqueterie art form. Upon reading about it, it is a very time consuming method of making a picture.

Some of the scenery walking toward the Chapel.

By the Chapel, there are a lot of the dorms and we got to see some of the cadets marching in formation.

At the end of 4 years, the graduates all have degrees and are officers. A lot of emphasis is placed on athletics and physical fitness. I didn’t catch his name, but one of the football players that went on to win the Superbowl, got started at the Air Force Academy, and he told how much the Ring he got at the Academy meant to him.

We thought it was an interesting place to see and I recommend it for anyone in the area.

 Some of the scenes on the way to the Visitor Center.

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