Sunday September 3rd 2017

It was another hot day in Hurricane Utah. It topped out just north of one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. It’s not bad for the first two thirds of the daylight hours, but the last few are something else. From about 4:30 to 7:30 the sun angle bakes in on the side of the RV. The inside walls are hot to the touch, the outside wall comes close to burning the skin. I close all the blinds and turn on both AC units to keep the inside in the eighties.

I got sidetracked on a computer geek task today. I’ve been trying to find an easier way to deal with pictures in my blog. The last couple of posts with Zion National Park pictures have included full size pictures rather than scaled down images. I hoped that this would save processing time when I prepare the blog. It takes a couple of minutes per image after I choose the ones I want to share. Unfortunately, the approach I tried doesn’t save any time. It also doesn’t work very well with a marginal internet connection like I have here. Today I worked on a way to automate the process of scaling the images to a blog friendly size.

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The pictures I’ve included in tonight’s blog are from yesterday’s trip to the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park. They were all re-sized using a slightly more automated approach than I was using. I’ve also included a watermark on all the images. I’m going to continue to research and experiment with better ways to handle photos and possibly a new look (theme) for the blog.

I’ve also been working on planning for the November through March time frame. I got up early for the fourth morning to try for a site in the Corp of Engineers campground in the Fort Meyers FL area during the beginning of March still without success. There are other possibilities that I will start to explore for that time frame, but I’m back in search of a plan for November through February. Texas from Interstate 35 east into Louisiana is going to be a good place to avoid for a few months. Many of the campgrounds near Houston were flooded and the others are likely to be used by people displaced from their homes. I don’t want to compete with their needs for a site.

I’m now looking at Southern California, Southern Nevada and Southern Arizona for month or two stay at the start of the winter. I don’t know anything about the California options. Nevada would be the Las Vegas or Laughlin areas and Arizona would be on the boarder with California or Nevada. I don’t really want to stay in the Phoenix area. The small amount of research I’ve done so far indicates that California is expensive if you get near a population center. I need a population center for entertainment. The research continues.