A new 'situation'......

 6:09 am - Friday - October 20th - Glamis North Hot Springs, CA -   70° F, humidity 50%, wind 1 mph out of the north......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies in the forecast today with a high of 100° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were touring Bryce Canyon NP.....↴

Just when you think getting up at 5 am is finished, another need to be awake at that ungodly hour arises.  We wanted to be sure to be exiting the Elks Lodge before the street work began again Thursday morning, and we wanted, very much, to be able to arrive at Glamis North Hot Springs well before the heat of the day in order to get our coach and trailer situated into our site for the next sixth months.  The forecast high at GNHS was to be 100° F....our first triple digit day since our last stay at GNHS.

By 5:50 am I was firing up the big Detroit Diesel 6v92, and within seconds (I don't sit there idling for 20 minutes like many folks tend to do with their diesels) we were moving.  As long as I have enough air pressure I'm moving.  As I edged slowly forward TLE was outside making sure I didn't hit anything in the still dark morning.  She suddenly ran to the driving side window waving for me to STOP, to which command I immediately complied.  Usually, after I fire up the Detroit I walk outside to disconnect the electrical umbilical cord, but for some inexplicable reason, this time, I did not.  Thank God I was moving quite slowly, and my egregious error was caught in time to avoid any damage!

Once the cord was stowed we began our exit from the Elks Lodge again, and by 6:15 am we were merging onto the 210 west bound headed for Redlands, and parts beyond.  We haven't driven outside of daylight hours for several years now, and this is really the first time I've driven with our new LED headlights in the dark.  I'm happy to say they worked wonderfully, and although we rarely, if ever, drive at night, it is good to know what a vast improvement they are over the old ones.

By 7 am the sun had risen, and we were nearing the summit of Banning Pass, and the end of a long 15 mile uphill grade.  Once over the summit it was basically all downhill to the Salton Sea, where we arrived at GNHS around 8:50 am without further incident.  One of our bosses, Bob Matthews, was there awaiting our arrival while working on the assembly of the new RZR's which have been delivered over the past two weeks.  Along with him is one of his employees, Hunter, from the Durango operation who will working with TLE and I in the rental operation for the next 6 months, thereby making it possible for us not to be on call 5-6 days a week.

While Bob and Hunter continued working on the RZR assembly, I got our our Toro blower out to clear the site of sand, gravel and other debris left over from the winter.....

....in all it took me around 30 minutes to clear the site, and then it was time to situate the Newell and trailer in our site.  You will recall that last winter we parked the Newell next to the office, and the trailer perpendicular to the office to kind of create our own little space, and it worked well.  The only issue we had was the sun was shinning through the front windshield of the Newell continuously during daylight hours, which tends to make it a little warmer than we like it in the salon, especially during the winter.  At any rate, we decided to reverse things, and park the trailer parallel to the office, and the Newell perpendicular to the office, thereby creating a continuously shaded area on the passenger side of the Newell with no need to even deploy our patio awning.  I think it turned out well.....

....as you can see from the pictures above, there is shade on the passenger side of the Newell equivalent to any shade that would be cast by the patio awning, and we have a slightly larger patio area.  By the time we got our rolling gear situated, and the utilities connected it was getting quite warm, so we called an end to the creation of our 'lido deck' for the day, and headed into the cool confines of the air conditioned Newell for the balance of the day.

Another bonus to our new arrangement is we are much, much closer to the utilities enabling me to hook up our regular sewer hose full time.  Last year we had to run it across our 'lido deck' to dump each time, and then unhook it until the next dump, or we'd be tripping over it all winter.  I think we will follow a similar setup plan next year at LPG&RVR.

As the afternoon progressed, we saw that by the time the sun reach the point in the sky where it could shine into the front windshield, the tree in front of the Newell was casting shade over it....perfect.  It never got warm in the salon all day, and the temp hit 100° F.  As the sun continues to get lower in the sky the shadow cast over the 'lido deck' will increase in size making it even nicer.  We've still got a lot to do over the next few days setting up our 'lido deck', plus there are a number of rentals this weekend beginning in about an hour from now (Friday), so time to get moving!

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