Sunday August 6th 2017

I succeeded in getting up earlier today, but I was even slower getting started than yesterday. It was well afternoon before I had any ambition. By then it was too late to head down to the National Parks. They are around 50 miles away. I spent most of the day in couch potato mode. I watched various sporting events on TV all day. Part of my lack of motivation is the knowledge that I’ve got another week here before moving on. I don’t think it will take more than three or four days to see most of the nearby sights.

Mr. Big ears hides from the sun under my RV. When I go outside he hops away watching me closely.

I took a couple of walks around the campground to get a little exercise. This campground is unusual in that it seems to fill up late in the evening. At most campgrounds the majority of the new arrivals have come in by six or seven in the evening. For some reason, this park seems to get many arrivals in the late evening. When it gets dark there are many empty sites, in the morning a lot of the empty sits have been filled.

It has looked like rain since mid afternoon. As I write this blog, it is between 6:30 and 7:00 and a thunderstorm has finally arrived. This one is a real thunderstorm. The last couple of days we’ve gotten wind, thunder and a little rain. Today’s storm has all of that plus air to ground lightning and lots of rain. I’ve seen at least two good lightning strikes in the distance. It has been a continuous roar of water hitting the roof of the RV and big areas of standing water are forming outside the rig. It has been awhile since I’ve been in this heavy a rain storm. Similar storms are in the forecast for the next couple of afternoons.