Greeley, Loveland and Hudson CO

We attended a Good Sam Rally in Greeley CO where, by chance, Suzette met up with one of her high school classmates that she hasn't seem in 53 years. So that was a unique adventure. We had a good time at the rally and made new friends. We were on the winning team for Bean Bag Baseball also.

After the rally we were off to Loveland and Riverview CG which was our base for seeing the Rocky Mountain NP and the sculpture garden in Loveland.  I did not take my camera to the sculpture garden so I don't have pictures here. Maybe I will those that Suzette took later. Following are a few pictures of RMNP.

During our excursion in the park we were having some problem with the Jeep. I was able to make an appointment with NAPA Car Care and with a tuneup, new battery, oil change, brake fluid change we were on our way.

Oh perhaps you are wondering about our windshield?  It was replaced today while we are in Hudson CO at Pepper Pod CG. A real laid back CG but it worked. The windshield 3 to 5 day shipping took more like 8 days and was just installed today. That will make us late to the rally we signed up in Hutchinson Kansas. But we will move in that direction tomorrow noon.

Scotts Bluff

Next was Scotts Bluff NB for more history. We stayed at Rodidoux CG. Once checked in we decided to ride to the NP for an sunset drive. Bummer the park closed at 1700. The following day we did go to the park and used their shuttle to go to the summit.

We also drove on to Chimney Rock NHS.

Fort Laramie NHS which was cold and windy so I didn't take any pictures. After touring the fort we stopped for F.L.A.G. for lunch. We were told about this lunch stop when we were stopped for watercraft check when we entered WY, if you are in the area stop in it's worth it.

We were told about Oregon Trail wagon ruts and "news paper" rock near Guernsey WYso of course we had to see that also.

Blog Slacking II

Stupid program seemed to get hung up so I posted and am continueing.

We did make a trip into Glacier NP and went on the East side roads for a ways.

I was not satisfied the way the coach was running so I took the closet apart again and dove into the turbo piping. I moved some of the hoses, moved and tightened some clamps and said a prayer.

Next stop was Cottonwood CG in Glasgow MT. Visited Ft Peck and toured the visitor center. Very interesting display and movies about the creation of the dam.

Then off to Theodore Roosevelt NP in Medora ND. If you haven't been then go.

Then off to Rapid City SD. Some where along the road, a thump road, Suzette noticed a crack in the windshield. Once we got parked at Three Flasgs RV Park we went of to pick up our mail at Americas Way. Then it was a call off to the insurance company to see about getting the windshield replaced. We are sure we had glass coverage insurance. That took a while to just make the necessary companies involved, Nationwide, Safelite Glass, who hands off to Duncan Glass. After a frustration a while we new there would be quite a delay where the figured out what glass we needed so after a visit to Mt Rushmore for the evening lighting ceremony and Crazy Horse we continued on to Hot Springs SD.
There we visited Wind Cave, which we toured a couple of years ago, natural area and Jewel Cave.

 The following were along the road traveling near Jewel Cove NM

Blog slacking again

Ok, I have been told that I am not keeping this up to date.
Since last we had spent a few nights in Prince George BC to have service done on the coach. In addition to the normal LUB stuff I had been had trouble with performance or rather than the lack of performance. In Whitehorse I had attempted to tighten up some clamps on the turbo piping. That helped but did not completely solved the issue. So to net it out the DPF, Diesel Particulate Filter, needed to be serviced. That is remove, bake out, reinstall road test. All in all $1400 cdn.. The coach ran well great for some time and then I had to do another parked regen. Don't ask.

Our next overnight adventure was at Quensel BC where we visited an reconstruction of a gold time at Bakerville BC.

The park, Airport CG, had very poor power so I just used my generator.  We saw a few deer in the CG.

Then a few nights in Golden BC at Whispering Spruce CG where we saw the sights.

Then off to Flathead Lake MT and Lakeside RV and Motel. We just got setup and were talking with folks we met last year when we heard the fire trucks. OH look forest fire just up the road. What to do? Of course, set up the lawn chairs and watch the water and retardant drops.

Moving to the lower 48

We left Valdez and met up with Terry and Muriel and Robert and Carolyn in TOK. We had a nice meeting and dinner. The following day I picked up mail and we headed "down" the Alcan.
Terry and Muriel went to follow the TOP and make a road to Inuvik, while Roberty and Carolyn continued with their tour with their next stop of Fairbanks.

On to Destruction Bay and most of that road is just that. Much of the road work we saw on the way up was finished. Now that doesen't mean that the road was still smoth. The permafrost is still a challenge.  The dirt had been changed with chip seal so much better.  We stopped for 2 nights at Congdon Creek CG which is a YT park.

On to Whitehorse where  we spent 3 nights at Pioneer Park. We took in a couple of sites that we missed on the way to Alaska. Also I worked on the coach since we were having some issues with turbo boost. That took about 3 hours to remove the closet trim to gain access. I made some Engineering Changes, EC's, so the next time it will take much less.  I tightened about 6 close clamps that make up the plumbing fort the turbo system.  I still think there is still a leak. I will making an appointment with a service center soon.

Next we continued on to Baby Nugget CG for an over night and dinner out. This made the junction with YT/BC 37 which is also known as The Cassiar highway. Now highway is a loose term. 2 lanes, no marking for most of it, chip seal for most of it, dirt/dust for most of it. The highlight was to make a stop at Jade Center. Yeah they have Jade. Our stop for that night was Shadow Mountain. We met another couple which had a Sheltie so of course we had a long visit.

So now we are in Stewart BC were we have met the folks from Shadow Mountain and a couple who we parked across from TOK and near us while at Whitehorse.  We also met Bigbomer which is now a friend we have been exchanging posts and notes on rvillage

Valdez

We left Palmer, Mountain View CG, and took the Glenn Highway to Glenn. Twists and turns, some construction and rolling frost heaves, rain and drizzle. Nothing to really say much about.

On Monday we went to Copper River to pick up our mail and make a stop to the Wrangell-St Elias NP visitors center.  This is a very nice  VC with plenty of space for RV parking.  As it has been for several days it is rainy and cloudy so no views.

The following day we pulled pack into the VC to take a picture or two,

We continued on to Valdez and ...

We arrived at Eagles Rest and got all set  up and made reservations for a Glacier Tour for the next day. I had taken a look at the Alaska Tour Saver and forgot that was one that we could have used a bogo but since this was the only we would have used there would not have much been a savings.





The tour was well done and included a light lunch. The weather was overcast but that brought out the blue in the glaciers. We saw Sea Otters doing what they should outter, Sea Lions in their man caves and a reported of a blow of a Hump Whale. The narration of the cruise was very informative and since this is a small ship you could talk with the captain while on the bridge.

More pictures will be on our online album.