6-18-2024
H: 66°F L: 29°F
Holiday Hills RV Park, Coalville, Utah
We had a relaxing day at the camper. The weather was cool so it was nice to sit outside. We are leaving tomorrow so we did a ton of laundry and cooking.
6-19-2024
H: 77°F L: 40°F
The Hitching Post RV Park, Snowville, Utah
It’s a travel day! We are staying the night near the Utah border with Idaho. It was a great day to drive through Utah. Very sunny but not to hot. We had pretty views of the mountains from our campsite in Snowville, UT and enjoyed a full-ish moon.
We have some exciting news! We finally placed our order for the Tesla Cybertruck. Daniel got on “the list” for the Cybertruck in 2019. The truck has 11,000 lbs towing capacity so it will pull our camper with complete ease. We are going to keep the Tesla Model X too so we have a backup tow car and, since it has free supercharging, we will continue to use it for our adventure days of exploring.
6-20-2024
H: 92ºF L: 50ºF
Bruneau Dunes State Park, Bruneau, Idaho
It’s another travel day! We traveled northwest into Idaho. We stopped in Burley, ID which was one of our charging stops. We were helped by a friendly man, Matt, at the post office. He helped extend our mail forwarding.
We stopped at another supercharger in Twin Falls, ID and were just minding our business when we found something spectacular in the parking lot. It’s the Snake River Canyon and Perrine Bridge. The bridge is the only man made structure in the US which allows BASE jumping year-round without a permit. The bridge is 486 feet above the river. We saw two people getting ready to jump as we were leaving.
We are staying a week at the Bruneau Dunes State Park. There is an observatory here which we plan on visiting on Saturday.
6-21-2024
H: 95°F L: 58°F
Bruneau Dunes State Park, Bruneau, Idaho
We drove to Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve for a Full Moon Hike with a park ranger. We stopped in Twin Falls again to charge and we drove down into the canyon.
We watched the sun set on our way to Crater of the Moon. It was such a pretty drive and very sparsely populated.
Two thousand years ago, volcanoes erupted so violently that they tore themselves apart. The lava and parts of the volcano crater flowed to the area of the Craters of the Moon and eroded over the years. It was very pretty and the park is very well maintained. They have lava tube caves you can go in but we weren’t able to explore those because it was too dark.
6-22-2024
H: 102°F L: 59°F
Bruneau Dunes State Park, Bruneau, Idaho
It’s a hot one today but we did go for an early morning hike to the sand dunes. The Bruneau Dunes are the tallest freestanding dunes in North America.
We took a small adventure trip to see what cool things we may find. This part of the country has a lot of old signs which I have really enjoyed. We also stopped at an antique/consignment shop, The Calico Cupboard, in Glenns Ferry where the shopkeeper gave us a lot of suggestions on things to see and do.
In the evening we went to the Bruneau Dunes Observatory at our campground. We attended a nice presentation on space, stars, and the equipment at the observatory. We then went to view the night skies through a Planewave CDK 700 27” telescope and saw some nebulae. We also joined staff and volunteers outside who had some smaller telescopes set up to show us some of the star clusters mentioned in the presentation. My favorite is the ET cluster (NGC 457) in the constellation Cassiopeia. I also like the Fish Hook Asterism in the constellation Scorpius.
Stats
Expenses:
- Tow vehicle fuel: $0
- Campsite: $167.80
- Camping memberships: $18.65
- Food: $9.89
Miles driven: 728.2 (319.8 kWh)
Number of people asking about the Tesla pulling the camper: 1
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