Three months...three dogs...what were we thinking?

- July 08, 2019

Random musings after three weeks on the road. A three act play.

Act 1 Weather forecasts...rain

They might as well be called weather "your guess is as good as mine” forecasts! For the first two weeks it seemed as if it rained everyday. That was bad enough. But what made it worse is that we would check the forecast for the next day and there would be no forecast rain...but it would rain anyway. This repeated itself over and over and over again. No rain in forecast...rain the next day. It got old fast.

Luckily the weather finally got nice and we've had several consecutive sunny days :-)

Act 2 More weather...wind

To keep things dry we have a “mudroom” that we put at the entrance of the Bowlus. Also works well as a room to clean the dogs before letting them in. The only bad thing about it is that it takes about 45 minutes to set up.

One day we had to switch sites at the campground. We decided it would be easier to walk the tent a quarter of a mile assembled, instead of disassembling and reassembling it. It was quite the sight.

Even worse was the next day when we had to take it down. Really gusty winds. Almost ended up with a hang gliding tour of the campground! Below is the re-enactment...one of us the horse's head, the other the horse's "not head".

Act 3 Not weather related...yeah

Here's a picture of our water filter. Even though the water is potable at most campgrounds we go the extra step for drinking and cooking water.

In the picture below you can see that the filter removes the red dye in the water from the top container and leaves purified water in the container below.