Hunkering Down in Comfort

We arrived at Russ parents house in Aztec last night. Russ' mom had made us a fabulous bean soup dinner with Saint Patrick's Day side dishes (potatoes and cabbage). We are resolving to stay in and not travel until it is safe to do so. The weather is cooperating with that plan, since it started snowing last night/early this morning. It is beautiful, with the snow lightly drifting down, as I sit here and look outside.

Like Christmas!

Russ parents' house in the snow.

The R-Pod parked at Russ' parents this morning.

Today I plan to do our laundry. We had considered some RV repair investigation, but since the snow looks like it is here to stay awhile, we my just let that wait. On our way here from our last stop in Kanab, UT, we had a structural failure: the outlet pipe on our black water tank came loose from the trailer frame and ground off along the ground. We ended up doing a makeshift repair with a bungie cord and a piece of webbing from my backpack to tie it back up so we could get here without further damage. Now the end of the pipe needs to be replaced. Of course, Russ did the repair laying down in red mud during a hail storm. Yuck.

Pulling out of our spot in Kanab. Yes, it was raining.

The drive was nice. It started on US 89, which is a scenic byway alongside the Vermillion Cliffs. We got to drive over the Glen Canyon Dam bridge. Plus we stopped for lunch at the Wahweap Lake Powell Overlook. I got some nice photos of Shiprock as we drove by. The intermittent rain and sun breaks made for some great photographic light.

Lake Powell, not as low as it has been lately.

The Glen Canyon Dam and Bridge.

Monuments on the Navajo Reservation.

Navajo Generating Station. A coal plant that is being shut down.

Ship Rock with tumbleweeds and sagebrush in the foreground

I'm finding it hard to switch gears from traveling and sightseeing to staying in place, but at least we are staying with family in comfort. We'll be here for at least two weeks, and probably three. So there will be less interesting posts and fewer of them. Stay healthy and carry on.