Yeah, why - is there a recall or credit available? Or just a common manufacturing flaw/weakness?
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Yeah, why - is there a recall or credit available? Or just a common manufacturing flaw/weakness?
I hear the train ride is a pretty good time and a really relaxing way to get there.
Been putting that off for a while. My hinges that hold the screen to the base have separated the halves of the base. It loses power to the screen if not held together. I had a vice grips holding the left side down. (Tried super glue first - didn't work). Eventually it has dis-en-crinkulated the whole corner. Such that the vice grips doesn't hold anymore. Today I switched out the vice grips I had on there for a larger size.
Not so much that I'm cheap. I just hate going to a new computer.
You are never EVER allowed to meet PapaLew. I have a feeling you'd disappear into the garagemahal and all kinds of weird shizz would be created by the two of you...
We went in early to mid May and the NE entrance was not yet open. They hadn't repaired any of the damaged guardrails on the E entrance that appeared to have been taken out by a small avalanche and there were still snowy areas in the higher spots in the center of the park. We got snowed on in the Tetons but it was very cool as an adolescent moose rubbed up against our RV as he was grazing right outside.
Most days it was flannel shirt or jacket weather.
I hope you have the senior park membership or whatever it is. I don't know the details but there is a US Park Service membership for seniors that I understand is a heck of a deal.
http://travel.usnews.com/Yellowstone_National_Park_WY/When_To_Visit/
https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/visitationstats.htm
EDIT: It is a Lifetime pass for $20 if I am reading this right but you have to apply in advance:
http://store.usgs.gov/pass/general.html
Sorry about the bad linkies. Copy and paste into your browser.
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By the way, I absolutely agree with KC on Mammoth. Minerva Terrace and the surrounding formations are surreal. It doesn't even look like it belongs on planet earth. Don't miss it. If you plan to take the road that drives through it all, note that no RV's or trailers are allowed as it is a narrow one way road (but still paved). You can still park and enjoy it all if you have an RV or trailer.
I would like to do late summer/early fall for that kind of trip...........bet fall colors would make for a gorgeous drive.
Though if it's a "down the road when we have little DH and CG's running around" we'd probably be looking at late August to get around school.
Though if it's a "down the road when we have little DH and CG's running around" we'd probably be looking at late August to get around school.
Also, when referring to bear season: In the spring the bears come out hungry/with their young. It is a good time to see them - we saw both grizzly and black - but they are hungry and protective of their young so there are restrictions on exposed food and cooking as I recall. If you are tenting it I'm not sure how you make it work, but many people appeared to do it. In Teton when the moose was right by our RV our next tent neighbors were outside their tent by their fire about 10 feet from the moose. That had to be even cooler than our experience.
We're getting kind of lucky this year as the park service is letting all families with children in 4th grade into the national parks for free.
I come by it genetically. We had a vice grip as the "handle" on our kitchen sink on the farm back in the 60's/70's. The black plastic handle stripped so my dad clamped a pair of vice grips on the splines and viola - we had cold water again.
I also recall a blown out brake line going to one of the rear wheels. He crawled under and cut the line and crinkled it over a couple times and clamped a vice grip on there - then topped off the master cylinder and drove home carefully on the front brakes only (before the days of split master cylinders).
We're staying in camper cabins. There are some pretty tight restrictions (or at least guidelines) about the exposed food and cooking. We're going to try to keep the kids from spilling too much food. Wish us good luck. 8 of the 12 children are boys.
We went across Canada 1 on the outbound leg of that trip in 2013, and dropped back down into the US via the northeastern entrance to Glacier. Gorgeous views all across Going-To-The-Sun road. When I was there as a child (around 11 years old...1966) it was summer, but there was still snow EVERYwhere. The glaciers have receded considerably in the last 50 years.
There's a really nice walk from the Logan Pass visitors center called Hidden Lake Overlook. It's an easy walk, a little less than 3 miles round trip, and lots of Rocky Mountain Sheep & Mountain Goats meandering close to the walking path. Lots of tougher walks as well but we were only day-tripping through the park.
great. this project is getting clustier and now IT has put into place a 60 day reset on our main password. Didn't bother to tell anyone that it was going into effect.
I'm going to be spending time getting my computer unlocked, I can tell. I'm sure my sticky note log of passwords will enhance the usefulness of this security feature.
I'm going to be spending time getting my computer unlocked, I can tell. I'm sure my sticky note log of passwords will enhance the usefulness of this security feature.
[video=youtube;9W2K3w0yu7o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W2K3w0yu7o[/video]We went across Canada 1 on the outbound leg of that trip in 2013, and dropped back down into the US via the northeastern entrance to Glacier. Gorgeous views all across Going-To-The-Sun road. When I was there as a child (around 11 years old...1966) it was summer, but there was still snow EVERYwhere. The glaciers have receded considerably in the last 50 years.
There's a really nice walk from the Logan Pass visitors center called Hidden Lake Overlook. It's an easy walk, a little less than 3 miles round trip, and lots of Rocky Mountain Sheep & Mountain Goats meandering close to the walking path. Lots of tougher walks as well but we were only day-tripping through the park.
Yup. Brothers from another mother. He fixed the engine on our van in Nowhere Oklahoma with a wooden mousetrap. among other things.
Lew hates the newer cars because he can't fix anything on them anymore - everything is computerized. He calls himsel a "shade-tree mechanic". I believed him after he used a limb on our maple tree to hoist a replacement engine into an old Dodge for one of the boys!
We are just doing the day trip from Devil's Lake because the sleeper cars are really expensive and booked up early. I think Little Bawbie will very much enjoy it.
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