Sunday, February 25: It was a very quiet night and I had a good rest. After my morning coffee and blog post I went for a walkabout. I checked out the RV park then headed to the Lake. The lake is about 3/4 of mile from the RV park and there wasn’t much going on anywhere. One vehicle at the Boulder Beach area on the lake, and a sailboat on the water. Nice views all around.

Patriotic view in front of office with contrail in sky. Lots of planes fly over going in and out of Las Vegas.Views of Lake Mead. You can see how low the water level is on the rocks in the distance. I read that some of the town that was covered by the water from the dam is now showing.View looking back at RV park from dry lakebed

I then walked through the National park campground next to the RV park I am in. It has more trees and greenery but no hookups. They had either added on to the park or repaved and renovated some of the campsites. They were really nice campsites.

Boulder Beach campground

My campsite with nothing but gravel

I didn’t do much all day after the walk. Misty has gotten into the habit of crawling under the quilt on the bed to sleep and was asleep for about 6 hours from before I left on my walk until about 2:00 in the afternoon. At one point, I crawled up next to her and snoozed for a little while. Lazing on a Sunday afternoon.

After we both woke up I decided to try to hook the cable to the TV. I spent some time using the flashlight and my camera to see behind the TV to where the cable would go but had not luck. Then I pulled out the TV manual (that was one of the few manuals left in the camper) and saw the general area where it might go. Not a detailed drawing of the back of the TV in the manual.

I finally lay on my back with both hands in the 2 inches between the TV and the wall and found the place. I managed to get the cable inserted and a couple turns of the nut to maybe hold it on if it doesn’t get tugged too hard. Victory! Did the search and got 50 channels.

Misty and I then went for a walk around the campground. She was pretty good at walking along on the leash, almost like she was enjoying it. The man in the other truck camper was sitting outside and commented that he missed his cat and that Misty looked good walking on the leash.

The afternoon was nice and pretty warm so we sat outside. Misty getting tangled up constantly and me listening to my book on headphones and untangling her. I could hear some crunching of gravel behind me and finally turned around and the guy from the little motorhome was lurking around and then came over to talk. Misty had jumped back up on the camper steps but eventually came down and deigned to let him pet her.

He was from the North Vegas area but sounded like he came to this area a lot. We talked for a while then he left. I think there are only single people in the 4 units around me and the other three are all men.

I looked into doing a raft trip here that takes you to the dam and then through Black Canyon. They didn’t have any availability on Monday, however, so that would mean I would have to stay another day or leave late on Tuesday. I started booking the trip then thought I should check the weather as there had been a lot of wind in the forecast on a couple days. Well, Tuesday didn’t show wind but it showed cloudy and rainy. I decided I would skip the tour since I didn’t think it would be great to sit in the raft in the rain and even if it didn’t rain it was supposed to be cold.

Eventually, I went back inside and started plotting out my trip home. I have an appointment on the 6th so have to be back by then. I don’t like to do long days of driving since it seems to bother my back and shoulder and Misty sure doesn’t like it either. However, it looked like I was going to have to pull 3 – 4 hour drives to make it back in time.

After researching I saw three routes I could take – 395 through Nevada and California; 95 Nevada and Oregon; or 93 Nevada, Idaho, Oregon. I read that 395 is a very scenic road, while 95 was kind of boring, and I could also go through and stay in Death Valley. So, I pretty much decided that would be the way I would go.

I fixed leftovers for dinner and watched some of the closing ceremony on my iPad. Then decided to go to bed to watch TV now that I had it fixed. Turned it on and no sound so I tried turning the volume up and it said TV volume is fixed! What the heck? It had volume before I plugged in the cable because I could hear the static. So, I turned it off once again and watched a couple of episodes of Victoria on my iPad before going to sleep.