Twelve consecutive.....

8:19 am - Monday - January 8th - GNHS - 47° F, humidity 31%, wind 12 mph out of the north by northwest (actually no wind at all right now)....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 61° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I were boondocking with friends Steven and Linda Dempsey.  Steven is a world class photographer, and the following pictures were taken by him one evening.....↴

.....on another evening he took portraits of those sitting around our group campfire....

Moi

Michael Vaccari

Liz (Mary Trancucci)

TLE

There were no rentals booked for Sunday, so TLE and I deferred to Hunter to open the office for a few hours in case there was any walkup business, and as it turns out he did get one 2 hour rental around noon time.  That makes it 12 consecutive days we have had at least one rental...a new COA record.  I would say close to 1/2 of our rentals this year are people coming from offsite (not staying here at GNHS), so that means our advertising is working to some degree.

When we awoke Sunday morning the wind was beginning to blow hard out of the north so we rallied ourselves, and headed outside to lower the sail shades, and lower the red wall on the pop up dining canopy.  Just as we began it started raining, and then hailing....doh!  By the time we scurried back inside we were both quite wet, but we got the job done.

Within an hour the rain/hail/thunder had stopped, and I took a walk....TLE doesn't like to walk in the wind, so it was a solo 2 mile walk for me.  I hit my highest mph/hour at 3.7 on the walk...about the fastest average I've had in a few years.  Back in 2015 when we were courtesy parked behind our daughter's home in Riverside, CA TLE and I used to hike the trail to Mt. Rubidoux, and would average between 3.8, and 4 mph, which was fast.  We were only 65 then, so I don't have any illusions about duplicating that speed at 74, but who knows?  The knee feels great, and I'm losing weight....so far we've both lost around 6 pounds since December 26th....

Look at those flags blowing....straight out of the north

.....I wanted to do another soak, but it was too windy and cold, so I'll wait until Monday.  In the mean time I did another 'toning' workout, then headed inside to watch some NFL football, and later the final round of the PGA tournament in Maui, which, by the way, was a barn burner.  About half way through the final round there were upwards of 10 people who had a chance to win, but ultimately it was Chris Kirk's day, who finished at 29 under par.

Around 2:30 pm I took my second walk of the day, by myself again, and did the 1 mile out and back walk this time, still averaging that 'blistering' 3.7 mph I did in the morning.  As I passed by the entrance to 'Snob Hill' I could see that the Sunday vacuum had done its job.....

....GNHS is now officially a ghost town once again, and except for the sound of that north wind, it would be a quiet night devoid of the sound of RZRs, and dirt bikes running to and fro, and hither and yon.

We were treated to a somewhat muted sunset, but beautiful, nonetheless....

Thanks for stopping by!