Day 2

Early to bed and early to rise, I awoke at 7 and took Tali for a quick walk. There was not too much to do in the trailer and we still haven't been to a grocery store so breakfast was quite meager, grape juice, tea and a power bar. We got the trailer ready and hooked up to the car and were on the the road just before 8.

The way out was quite different than the way in, it took us through a mountain pass. The interesting thing was that we wound up on the same manmade lake that we started on just a little further down the road. We saw three deer cross the road in front of us and then a fox shot across the road. We stopped to grab a cache mark "cache and dash" It wound up being just along the side of the road but in the mean time we go a reflection that lead us off into the bush. We were just leaving when I noticed that the gps distance to the cache was going down as I walked away from where we thought the cache was. Once I realized this it only took a minute or so to find it.

The next larger town we came to was Ridgeway and we stopped at a small dinner there, The Pennsy Restaurant. I had a couple of pancakes and 2 slices of bacon. Laurel had scrambled egg and bacon with homemade toast. Again this was an amazing price $10.50. You can eat like a king here for very little money.

We drove for some time after that only stopping for gas. We finally stopped for another cache and that way Tali gets a bit of a walk and a chance to pee. Anyway Laurel found the cache and called me over, I went one way and Tali went the other. He pulled me just as I was off balance and down I went. I hurt my left shoulder and scraped my elbow. I was a bit sore and it took me some time to get up. Still nothing broken so we finished the cache and headed off again. By this time the temperature was getting up into the mid 80s (33).

There was a lot of traffic at one section of the 270 so we got off and went around it. It was a very scenic drive and would have been fun in part except for the trailer. We got back on the highway and drove into town without any troubles. Thank God for GPS's, I am not really sure how we ever managed with out them.

We arrived at the camp site just after 4PM registered, got some information, set up the trailer and drove over to the AT&T store and managed to get there just before they closed at 5. I wanted to get 2 refurbished phones but they didn't have any refurbs. We picked up 2 cheap Nokias for $29 each including $15 minutes of air time. These are pay as you go with $.10 per minute and $1 per day, but the bonus is free mobile to mobile calling so calling so for a dollar a day we can use them as walkie-talkies.

We finally got out and did some grocery shopping. By the time we ot back home it was after 6 and I suggested that we should go out for supper, I was hungry and had no desire to cook. So we went out to Hard Times restaurant. Their specialty is chili and I had the 5 side Chili and Mac (Chili over spaghetti ) with chili, beans, onions, cheese. Laurel had Frito Pie, chili over Fritos with cheese. Total was $26.

We headed back to the trailer and after feeding and walking Tali we went to the pool for a swm. By this point my ankle was sore from the fall this morning. I looked at it and it was swollen, huge by this point and now quite sore to walk on. The swim helped and I hink the swelling had visibly gone down. Laurel thinks the cold water helps. It certainly was refreshing after the heat of the day. We phone Jo, Sue and Laurel's mother using soft phone, free from anywhere if you have a PC (my little laptop) and the internet. I forgot to mention I have a SIP provider, Voipgo that I use for my home phone which I also use for the SiP.

One more walk for Tali and we watched some tube and then off to sleep for the night.