Saturday Aug. 8
Grab your favorite drink and get comfortable. Have a lot to talk about today.
First we’ll talk about the weather. It is COLD. Don’t know what it was this morning but it never got over 55 degrees all day! I had to put on socks and shoes! Friday night we went to Wal Mart and each got 2 pairs of jeans on sale. We’re gonna need them.
We headed northeast this morning to Upper and Lower Mesa falls. They are just west of Yellowstone and in Idaho. The lower fall was very disappointing because we weren’t able to see much of it. The Upper falls were magnificent!!! We took lots of pictures. They had nice wide wooden walks with viewing areas jutting out so view was awesome. A couple in jeans and Guns ‘n Roses t-shirts were getting married at one of the overlooks. After the falls we wandered around on back roads looking for some wild life. We found it! Picked up a decent looking guy out in the middle of nowhere. He started talking about how he bought a computer and then the people send messages and they got trapped in his brain. He had to stay off the computer because he had started arguing with his brain. LOL
I had been looking all day for some of those cool barns that are buried but found none. About a mile from campsite I found one. We went down road to house and knocked on the door. We asked the little old man if we could take pictures. He was excited and insisted we go into the barns too. Again, we took lots of pictures. He was very informative. We learned that nobody in Arkansas digs their potatoes at the right time. You let them bloom and wait until a week after the 1st frost or Oct.1st you break the plants off and leave potatoes in ground a week or so to ripen. Everyone had us dig them in July!
We relaxed in the evening by tearing all the old TV stuff out of RV and installing a new digital TV and booster. We went from 3 channels to 8 and the picture is so much clearer. We considered a friends suggestion of mounting a huge cookie sheet on the roof for better reception but couldn’t find a big enough cookie sheet LOL
We considered running to Yellowstone today but all that riding and driving has caught up with us. We’re going to stay here another day and recuperate. Not fun to get old and/or have health problems.