Thursday September 7th 2017

I was up early even by Utah time. Using local Arizona time it was absolutely ridiculous. Let’s just call it practice for tomorrow morning. I need to be at the Lake Powell Lodge at 7am to check in for my boat trip to Rainbow Bridge National Monument. It’s about a 50 mile boat trip each way.

Glen Canyon Dam

Colorado River looking down stream from the Glen Canyon Dam overlook.

Today was a potpourri kind of day. I started the day with a visit to the Glen Canyon Dam overlook. For some reason I thought it looked like a concrete cork in a rock bottle. There is no physical similarity just an odd metaphor that passed through my brain. Maybe from lack of sleep.

Back at camp I did the laundry. This was one of the cheaper campground laundries. A load of wash was a dollar and a drier run was only fifty cents for a 35 minute run. I probably should have coughed up another fifty cents, because some of the clothes weren’t completely dry. A couple of things are still hanging around in the RV tonight. I just didn’t want to hang around the laundry for another half an hour.

More house boats in Lake Powell.

It clouded over late in the afternoon. I took advantage of the filtered sunlight to take another walk around the area. I seemed to startle many little cotton tailed rabbits. One bigger rabbit that looked like it might have been a jack rabbit saw me long before I saw him. We had a staring contest before he hopped into the brush.

Jack Rabbit (?)

The cloud cover that made the walk comfortable was threatening to make the walk dangerous. A thunderstorm was moving in. Lightning was visible on the horizon, so I had to cut my walk short and return home. I was back only a few minutes before the sky opened up. It rained hard for a half an hour. It has rained a few more times for shorter durations since then. Hopefully the rain will wash some of the dust off my motorhome and car.