2009/05/19 – Tuesday – Shopping and Relaxing

Another day off on Furlough – I still got up at normal time like I was going to work – I don’t know about that….

We all ate breakfast and we did a little research on some Geo Cache and around noon we finally got ready for leave.

First stop, Slash-X – It was Closed! hmmm don’t know why.

We stopped at the National Park Service for the Mojave Preserve and looked around – it is small but has a good map display.

Now in town we stopped at Home Depot to get a few things (stakes, ribbon, and batteries), next it was time for Lunch at IHOP.  We then stopped at Vons to get a few other items and replenish.

We stopped at Flying J’s to refuel, and did two Geo Cache that was really close to the road.

“Blue” needs some tlc, so I am going to take it easy this week.

Amanda did cook dinner tonight and I started the fire to relax at for the evening.

We did have two campers (one group) come in today, but they did camp a little bit away.

CJ wanted to do the telescope, so I got it out and set it up for him.

Now the fire has died down and I am leaving what little wood I have left for tomorrow.

2008/05/24 – Saturday – Day 2 – HDR

Got up and made sure the Jeep was at the starting location before 8:00 so people would know which way to be heading for the Blue Moon run.

I went back to the RV to get lunch items that Cheryl made for Amanda and I.

We did our normal drivers meeting at about 15 till. I had about 3 people that had done this trail before and about ¾ of the group had not been at HDR before.

We left about 5 minutes after 9:00.

When we got to the first major hill, I let Amanda drive the Jeep to the other end of the plateau, while I walk down to the point where I spot people though the tough spot. I only had one person that was very nervous when he could not first make the obstacle.

I had Amanda drive the Jeep again on another plateau area while I made sure everybody was ok coming up the hill.

I was able to follow the GPS on the new section that I found on Friday. We had lunch at 11:30

Everybody was doing so good on the next set of hill climbs, I added another section that I tried last year and everybody did good.

We finished the run at 1:00 and I said my usual good byes to everybody.

Once everybody had left, I went exploring and found another trail across the road of the main road. Come to find out I think the road is more a quad trail, I did hit one rock good, and Amanda did let out a little noise when I hit it and stopped.

We got back to camp about 2:00. I stayed around the main camp for a little while. Once I made it back to the RV, I went ahead and took a nap.

Knock on the door woke me up and it was good friend. So we talked for a while.

Getting the dinner tickets from the registration package, I headed on over to main camp to got dinner – also drove the Jeep over to get it ready for the night run.

I did try the Nail Pounding game. I was in first place with 13 nails in the board in 30 seconds. But about 30 minutes, a buddy of mine got 14 in, then another friend tied with me later.

The Best Equip game was fun to watch. It had ended about 10:00

About 15 minutes after the game was done it was time to head on out for the “Jesse Southern Lights” run.

I had about 20 vehicles. I was able to find the start of the trail easily with the GPS help. We had very minor slow downs and all was at the top by 11:00. I pointed out several areas to several different groups.

The down hill section was a little slow going, but everybody did fine.

Once to the main road, I let everybody go on by, so I know that everybody got off the trail. I got back to the RV by 10 minutes after midnight.

Another fun day at HDR.

2008/05/09 – Friday – New Stuff

When I got home, I noticed that I had a package from Delorme.

I opened the package and my new software – Street Atlas USA 2009 and a new GPS – Earthmate GPS LT-40

Well, of course I installed the software and attached the GPS, but I have additional software called GpsGate that will allow the GPS be shared with multiple software and it would not recognize the GPS. I had to do some research and found out I could download a piece of software from Delorme and finally that allowed the GPS to be shared via the GpsGate software.

While I was doing the above research I went and got the van from the dealer. The van got it necessary service done. But I wanted the alarm to honk the horn like it us to when you armed the system, but that didn’t get fixed (even though it was stated it was fixed).

Cheryl and Amanda went shopping after she got home.

2007/05/25 – Friday – Bad Feeling

Got a little extra sleep, because I didn’t get to sleep until late last night.

Once up, I got with D.H. to go get some coordinates for the GPS hunt. Had a good time getting the info. Back at camp I got all the info into the computer and printed the sheets out – Yes, I did take the printer with us, but it take a little bit to get it connected to a different network.

All the time during the day, I had several friends asked where the Dirt Devils was camped at, so of course I pointed or took them over to them.

We also had our friends T&D C. come out and camp with us for the weekend.

Later that day, I opened the big bottle of wine and T and I had a glass of wine. But the wine had a very strong smell and the taste was very strong. I could not do another glass, so I drank some other stuff that Cheryl had – Bialys.


I got to bed late – about 1:00 in the morning….

2007/05/09 – Wednesday – HDR Preparing

Lunch was with a buddy at Subway.

I worked with a friend on the HDR GPS game. He had 6 of the locations figured out, I had 2 locations, and we came up with another one, but we still want one more for a total of 10 points to find. Now I need to create the sheet and give him the sheet to critique.

Tonight I worked on my desk, trying to get the piles down to smaller size again.

Thursday – GPS work

Lunch at Z-Pizza – Meatball Sandwich again with two friends.

I had to work on the GPS items for HDR. I need to get the route for the trails that we will be doing for the event. I had the Devils Loop from 2001; I also was able to find my Blue Moon Run and Southern lights from 2005. I forward that info to the run dude and the Dirt Devil Prez.

Other wise, the evening was relaxing.