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11:36 am - PDST - Thursday - 64º F, 31% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the west........partly cloudy skies.....we made it from Furnace Creek to Baker, CA in just 2.5 hours......wonderful drive today! The forecast high in Baker today will be 77º F.....we are definitely, finally in a cooling trend.....the forecast temps in the Riverside, CA area where we will be for a week beginning Friday are in the 60's and 70's......and no wind forecast......wonderful! Of course, the day we leave Death Valley aka: 'The Valley of the Wind', the wind finally dies for the first time in 4 days.
After 3 days of continuous winds in the teens TLE succumbed to her allergies......I closed all the windows first thing Wednesday, and turned on A/C to the low fan setting to hopefully filter all the dust and pollen out of our interior air, and that seemed to help, but by that time she had a sinus headache to beat the band, and spent a large part of the morning in the darkened bedroom with a pillow over her eyes. Regrettably that ended our site seeing plans for the day......I got a chair out and sat outside in the sun reading for a couple hours in the still cool early morning air.
That was pretty much my day Wednesday, other than checking on TLE periodically to be sure she had not succumbed to anaphylactic shock.....she did not. By early afternoon she was beginning to feel slightly better and joined me in the salon. Later in the afternoon I busied myself with putting away what little stuff we had deployed, which was not much, in preparation for our liftoff early Thursday morning.
We did watch the latest episode of 'Survivor' at 8 pm, and were in bed by 9:30 pm. In retrospect our stay in Death Valley did not turn out the way I had hoped.......the weather just was not conducive to much more than we did. I'm grateful we drove into the south end of Death Valley in the VW the day before we drove in the Newell to see Badwater. Sometimes things don't work out the way you envision them.....as the Stones' lyric says in their immortal song......'You don't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.....'
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After 3 days of continuous winds in the teens TLE succumbed to her allergies......I closed all the windows first thing Wednesday, and turned on A/C to the low fan setting to hopefully filter all the dust and pollen out of our interior air, and that seemed to help, but by that time she had a sinus headache to beat the band, and spent a large part of the morning in the darkened bedroom with a pillow over her eyes. Regrettably that ended our site seeing plans for the day......I got a chair out and sat outside in the sun reading for a couple hours in the still cool early morning air.
That was pretty much my day Wednesday, other than checking on TLE periodically to be sure she had not succumbed to anaphylactic shock.....she did not. By early afternoon she was beginning to feel slightly better and joined me in the salon. Later in the afternoon I busied myself with putting away what little stuff we had deployed, which was not much, in preparation for our liftoff early Thursday morning.
We did watch the latest episode of 'Survivor' at 8 pm, and were in bed by 9:30 pm. In retrospect our stay in Death Valley did not turn out the way I had hoped.......the weather just was not conducive to much more than we did. I'm grateful we drove into the south end of Death Valley in the VW the day before we drove in the Newell to see Badwater. Sometimes things don't work out the way you envision them.....as the Stones' lyric says in their immortal song......'You don't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.....'
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The weather does play a large part of our lifestyle, and we just need to go with the flow, Enjoy Riverside.
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