Mapping the course of the next two weeks

As I sat outside with Emma this evening, I realized that I had two weeks left at Red Rock before I pull out for new horizons.  Being a planful person, I took a few moments to reflect on what I wanted to accomplish before I leave.  I thought about Yellowstone NP, and the fact that I may never be back to this park again.  It seemed to me that regardless of the crowds, I needed to make a few more trips into this magnificent park.  Where else will I see these massive bison herds and beautiful vistas?  The magnitude of this place just moves me.  So, tomorrow, I’ll be back on the road.  :)

 

Then, I thought about the physical preparations for departure.

Just take a look at the dusty condition of this car!  What a mess.  The road dust is everywhere.  I’ll need to really spend a day cleaning this up, but that won’t happen until I’m sure I won’t be going on any more gravel roads while I’m here.  That last weekend before I leave will be spent doing all the other chores making the rig ship shape for travel.

 

In order to do that, I’ll be needing to take a trip to a relatively large city so I can buy a new air compressor that will handle the 100 lb. PSI that I need in the rig’s tires.  I’ll probably head for Bozeman, Montana, later this week.  It’s about 100 miles from here, but there’s no sales tax up there.  The rig is also pretty dusty from all the high winds and blowing dust here, so I may try to give it a good washing too.  We’ll see about that one.  :)

 

I was out of milk, so I packed up Emma in the car and headed out early this evening to see what I could see.

As I headed out of the campground, there was a nice red-tailed hawk perched at the top of a tree.  Very typical for a red tail.  I’ve read that they can see a mouse moving around a mile away.  Imagine having eye sight like that!

 

Before gassing up the car and getting the milk, I headed for the Island Park Dam to see what might be floating around.

There weren’t any pelicans or Western grebes about, but across the bay was a great blue heron and four sandhill cranes.  They were really pretty far away.  I hear cranes every morning when I take Emma out for her walk, but they are hard to see in the meadows surrounding the campground.  This family of cranes will be heading south before too long.

 

I wanted to give an update on my quest to have comments visible to readers of the blog.  Apparently, they are visible to readers already.  It just amazes me that they are not visible to blog authors.  What in the world is up with that?  So, after eliminating blog owner approval of comments, I have reinstated that feature so I know when there is a comment.  I don’t want to have to keep clicking on ‘view blog’ in order to read any comments.  With the comment moderation in force, I can read the comments and publish them from my Google email account.  It was obvious to me that many other blog authors didn’t know this either.

 

Thanks for stopping by….talk to you later,  Judy