Home Again - September 4, 2021

Home Again - September 4, 2021

We're home again ... we drove by Lake Powell and were struck by how low the water levels were ... one could barely see the lake.  

We were also struck by how difficult it will be to transform the transportation sector to more fuel efficient vehicles when the roads were filled with fellow travelers in large vehicles to tow even larger trailers, outsized motor homes, double and triple trailer commercial trucks carrying goods from point A to point B.  We're fully aware that we are part of this fuel-driven source of green house gases and that so much change will have to happen to convert the fuel-based part of our economy.  It is hard to wrap one's brain around the magnitude of the change that is needed ... particularly while driving during Labor Day holiday traffic.

It was good to get home ... to get Bambi unloaded and tucked back into his storage unit.  

And, clearly, Coco was glad to be back home to relax on "her" couch again ...

KOA Fillmore to KOA Flagstaff, AZ - September 3, 2021

KOA Fillmore to KOA Flagstaff, AZ - September 2, 2021

Another long day of driving, 375 miles, to arrive in Flagstaff.  Funny ... after all of our time in the Pacific Northwest with only one night of modest rain, we arrive in Flagstaff in the midst of a downpour.  It was hard to set up in all of the rain, but like most desert rains, it did pass and we were able to finish setting up for the night.  

KOA Flagstaff is perhaps the liveliest of the KOAs that we've ever stayed at ... campers, tents, teepees and cabins ... lots of children playing ... it just feels like a holiday campsite.  And, it was booked with Labor Day celebrants.

 Olivia and her two sons, Rouge and Rojo celebrated their return to KOA Flagstaff with Coco ...

And Coco was eager to get back on the road again ... from her perch (bed) in the back seat of Fritz ...

KOA Twin Falls to KOA Fillmore, Utah - September 2, 2021

KOA Twin Falls to KOA Fillmore, Utah - September 2, 2021

Labor Day traffic is beginning to pick up.  We traveled 361 miles from Idaho to KOA Fillmore in Utah.  Actually we have used this KOA before and found it spacious, with large cottonwood trees to provide shade, and an incredible amount of wind blowing across the valley in which this KOA is located.  

We're finishing up food ... including a tomato-habanero salsa that we made from some habaneros and tomatoes that were gifted to us by Jim from his garden ...

KOA Pendleton to KOA Twin Falls, Idaho - September 1, 2021

KOA Pendleton to KOA Twin Falls, Idaho - September 1, 2021

We have entered the land of the "unmasked" once we drove from Oregon into Idaho.  We are not sure what is in the water in Idaho to create a population of "unmasked" (and we fear, unvaccinated) individuals, but it is quite strange to go from the relative social commitment to public health and the safety of all into a land of "unmasked" individuals without regard to social distancing indoors or outdoors.  

It was another long day of driving, 347 miles, which is long when pulling a trailer, to arrive at the KOA in Twin Falls, Idaho.  It might have been nice to spend more time to see Shoshone Falls, but it would have been challenging to detach Bambi from Fritz to drive to the Falls and then to re-attach to continue the drive.  It just wasn't the time or place ... perhaps another time.