The camp all seemed to get up about the same time and start getting ready to leave.
I even let Eric drive the Jeep up onto the trailer – it did make me a little nervous but all went well.
The traffic heading home on 86 was not to bad a little heavy but was moving, this could not be said about the 10. Slow most of the way until the 10 and 60 split. Then again a little slowdown at the 60 and 215 merge.
The trip was good and nothing existing – which is good!
We left camp about 9:00 and heading north towards the phone booth. Once we got on the mesa top – I was looking back toward camp and I noticed another club member coming into camp, so we stopped and waited for him to join us – so now we have seven vehicles.
We played on/in/around the mud hill going toward the phone booth. One hill climb, Dan made it to the top, but Jeff couldn’t get the traction on the hill climb he was doing – it took some time for him to turn around.
We finally made it to the phone booth and looking around we noticed that a helicopter was coming to medi-vac somebody out. We watched he helicopter land.
After lunch we headed further north to explore some more areas. Bill then broke hill driver rear axle, but a few of use wanted to do a little section before heading back to camp.
Dan then broke his passenger front leaf spring. So we spent the next 3 hours fixing it. We finally got back to camp about 6.
Dinner with family and friends and then setting around the camp fire. A good Saturday!
We got a lot of our packing down on Wednesday so this morning we did not need to do a lot. We left the house some time around 11:00 to head over to Mom D for Turkey.
We had 4 different families (Mom D, D&M&J&R, Y&Y&C, and of course us four.) Turkey was good and we all seemed to have a good time.
We left almost at 3:00 to head for Truckhaven hills.
About and hour into our drive, the inside passenger rear tire blows. It did no damage – so that is a good thing. The Smartire never did give a squawk about the blown tire. We got the tire changed in a really good time.
We got into camp about 8:00 and Jeff lead the way into camp. He found a faster straighter route.
I set everything up and then went and sat around the fire to enjoy some time with some friends.
We slowly got things ready to go around the RV. I help a friend trying to get his satellite TV working.
We said our goodbyes and heading down the road.
First stop was at Kramer Junction to fill up the RV with some go go juice. Everybody else got lunch and I ate a lunch-able that we already had in the the fridge. I also noticed the the Jeep was dripping radiator fluid – it doesn’t like being bounced around so the whole must be getting bigger.
I stopped at a new RV dump location, but they wanted $10 , so I left and stopped at the other place that is only $7.
I took a little different route today to getting home, I decided I didn’t want to take the 210 because of the winds – I was getting pushed around good, so I dropped down to the 60.
On the way down to the 60, Cheryl called and said that they heard a pop, but all my tires were good. About 10 minutes later, I get a warning from the SmarTire system about the front driver side trailer tire low on pressure. I finished transferring onto the 60 and exited the first exit, so I could double check the tire. By the time we stopped the pressure on the tire had dropped another 8 pounds.
Eric and CJ helped in changing the tire. Once the tire was off the trailer, we could see that a big chunk of the tire is missing on the inside, but the tire was still holding pressure (I will take a picture of it on Monday).
We made it home and got everything put away. The Jeep has dipped a lot of radiator fluids out, so no driving it until I get it fixed.
I got up early so I could go on a ride with the leader that was doing Fish Canyon. I did wakeup Amanda also so she could also ride with another friend which was also going on Fish Canyon
I had a good time riding with S.G. Fish Canyon was more technical then I remember from many years ago.
We got back to camp about 3:00 and I talked to many other friends before finally getting my chair and setting it up for me to enjoy the raffle.
Well, for this year PVD raffle including the kids raffle – we got nothing.
I am tired so off to bed early tonight…
I got up early – but had a good night sleep.
I was able to get a ride with some friends and we went exploring south of the PVD main camp. We drove from the top of the pass from Trona to Panamint Valley on the old Nadu Road. We got back to camp about 1:15 – Just in time to get ready for my next adventure.
After squaring away a driver that I can ride with, I started the drivers meeting, at least half if not more were new to PVD and of course new to the Lookout City Sunset run.
Our first stop was on the roadway to collect everybody after leaving camp. When we were waiting for everybody we had a jet flying over us doing flybys – really COOL! We had a total of 33 vehicles.
We even got back to camp in a very good time – good group!
While we were out we heard about a bad rollover from a non-event group run on South Park, with bad injuries. We all need to pray for the people in the rollover for a quick recovery.
Cheryl and Eric made it out in about four and half hours – traffic was good.
Time for bed, 6:30 will come early.
Of course I didn’t get a good nights sleep, so hopefully I will tonight. But the day started out nice and sunny with a few clouds.
I went and helped out setting up the cook tent. A little after noon, I came over to get some food.
I worked on getting the Dish TV to work but I think the switch is broken so we can only use one of the LNBs. I am going to find out why I have gone through two switches already.
The jets did buzz us a few times so that is always a cool thing.
In the afternoon I was going to help set up sign for the run, well the Jeep CJ5 “Green” started to leek radiator fluid from the bottom of the radiator – so that means I will not be able to go anywhere with it this weekend.
I came back to the RV around 9 and watch TV for the evening. Now I am tired so I should sleep good.
I got off work a little early for me. It only took about an hour to get the last of the item in the RV and rolling down the road. Amanda, CJ and I left about 5:30.
We made good time, all the freeways were moving and no real slowdowns anywhere.
We did stop at Cramer Junction to get fuel and somewhat of a dinner. We did forget the ice, so I will have to tell Cheryl to get it on her way up on Friday after she picks up Eric after school.
We also stumbled into Chef Andy’s group also heading up to PVD
We got into camp about 10:30 and finally got everything setup about 12:00 including the wind generator, but I still cannot get the Satellite TV working yet, but as you can tell if you are reading this on the 12th, that I was able to get the internet working fine.
It is almost 1:00 in the morning and I need to get some sleep – hope we have fun here at Panamint Valley Days
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