6:52 am - Saturday - January 27th - GNHS - 49° F, humidity 87%, wind 7 mph out of the north......partially cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 69° F. On this date in 2012, just days before we began our full time nomadic adventure, I was viewing an amazing sunrise at Rancho Jurupa Regional Park.....
We had no advance bookings for Friday, so we opened the office at 9 am, and then TLE and I spent an hour, or so measuring the tread depth on each of the 8 four seat RZRs to see how many tires we will need to be replacing soon. The minimum tread depth Polaris wants is 12/32's, and out of the 32 tires on those 8 RZRs there are 5 at or below 12/32's, with a few more getting close, so we (COA) will need to order tires to replace those for the balance of the season. In the interim we will focus on renting those RZRs which still have good tread depth. The terrain here at GNHS is very hard on tires, unlike the terrain in Durango, CO (actually Purgatory Ski Resort), which is not hard on offroad tires at all.
We had a lot of walkup interest in the RZRs Thursday, but no renters, so we closed the office around 11 am, but stayed close in case we did get a customer, or two, but that never happened. We took two more of our one mile out and back walks averaging 3.4 mph on the first, and a leisurely 3.1 mph on the second one....
Mt. San Jacinto and Mt. San Gorgornio finally have snow
In other Newell related news I managed to install one more of the new reading lights....this one over the instrument panel for the Newell....
....only one to go now.
Additionally, on Friday, we had unexpected Santa Ana Winds arrive right out the blue.....no warning from the weather service.....and had to rapidly take down our sail shades, and the dining canopy, which are still down as I write. The winds never got ferocious until early this morning (Saturday), but they have now abated for the time being.
Because of the winds we did not spend any time on the viewing deck, but I did get pictures of the Chocolates lighting up, and the sunset.....the sunset pictures were great because you are actually able to see the Salon Sea due to the angle of the light coming from the setting sun behind the clouds......
Click on this picture to enlarge so you can see the shimmering
Salton Sea in the distance
....well, we've got a somewhat busy Saturday ahead of us with 3 rentals going out (2 all day, and one half day), so it's time to get cracking. Thanks for stopping by!
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