Beating the heat...
Summer has arrived with a vengeance here in Arizona with temps approaching 118 forecast for Sunday through Wednesday in the Valley of the Sun {greater Phoenix area}. Last fall we moved up to Payson a...
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OP here... we just returned at noon today and had a great trip. While warmer than I had hoped, we had high 80's all three days, with the nice breeze it was very pleasant. The stage II fire restrictions were being stringently enforced as one FOOL found out the hard way. I guess he just "Had" to have a campfire and ended up booted from the CG in perpetuity and a $5,000 fine for his stupidity.
Propane fire pits {Fireplace in a Can, Little red Campfire etc.} are permitted but common sense {not all that common actually} dictates keeping them down low. We rode the Spyder a couple of hundred miles mostly on the Devil's Highway, one of our all time favorite roads and the early morning rides were nice and cool, around 69 to start, climbing up into the low 80's after a few hours.
After weeks of no rain we enjoyed a spectacular monsoon thunderstorm last night. It came and went in just an hour or two but not before dumping a lot of rain with a spectacular lightning/thunder show.
I had the the coach thoroughly serviced a few weeks ago and this was a great test of all of the systems. It was 330 miles round trip and that included a lot of climbing. We left home at 5,000' and the CG is at 9,180'. You pass over 9,000'+ about half a dozen times coming and going and with the temps in the upper 80's we were running the AC. Finished the trip at 8.5 mpg and we were running heavy towing the 2,500# cargo trailer which made me smile.
Sadly we are headed back to San Diego the end of June for a funeral/celebration of life as my SIL's mother recently/unexpectedly passed. We will spend about 8 days in southern California following the service visiting friends and celebrating the 4th of July at our old Yacht Club - always at the biggest party of the year. It's nice to know the coach is up to the task.
Here is a shot of our rig at site #73 at the Rainbow CG:
A lot of the kids in the CG got a big kick out of the Can Am Spyder as most had never seen such a machine. Must have been the Royale Blue/Metal Flake paint job as it sure wasn't this old guy riding it. :B
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Propane fire pits {Fireplace in a Can, Little red Campfire etc.} are permitted but common sense {not all that common actually} dictates keeping them down low. We rode the Spyder a couple of hundred miles mostly on the Devil's Highway, one of our all time favorite roads and the early morning rides were nice and cool, around 69 to start, climbing up into the low 80's after a few hours.
After weeks of no rain we enjoyed a spectacular monsoon thunderstorm last night. It came and went in just an hour or two but not before dumping a lot of rain with a spectacular lightning/thunder show.
I had the the coach thoroughly serviced a few weeks ago and this was a great test of all of the systems. It was 330 miles round trip and that included a lot of climbing. We left home at 5,000' and the CG is at 9,180'. You pass over 9,000'+ about half a dozen times coming and going and with the temps in the upper 80's we were running the AC. Finished the trip at 8.5 mpg and we were running heavy towing the 2,500# cargo trailer which made me smile.
Sadly we are headed back to San Diego the end of June for a funeral/celebration of life as my SIL's mother recently/unexpectedly passed. We will spend about 8 days in southern California following the service visiting friends and celebrating the 4th of July at our old Yacht Club - always at the biggest party of the year. It's nice to know the coach is up to the task.
Here is a shot of our rig at site #73 at the Rainbow CG:
A lot of the kids in the CG got a big kick out of the Can Am Spyder as most had never seen such a machine. Must have been the Royale Blue/Metal Flake paint job as it sure wasn't this old guy riding it. :B
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