Pushing On.....

We all agreed on a name for the Bounder as we walked into dinner last night. ERVE!

We pushed on through the night. Our adventures continued but on a somewhat smaller scale. Thank goodness!

Matt and I trying to fill the water tank at midnight at a Flying J amongst a bajillion truckers, weaving Erve in between them to get to the spigot and then again to get to the dump station. Scraping the massive carnage of bugs from the front of Erve.

Saturday morning we entered the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming and stopped at a scenic overlook to eat our breakfast. Heaven on earth! The air temp was cooler than our AC and the air was fresher than could be (certainly better than bleach!) The views of the snowcapped mountains and wildflowers were stunning. I could live here.

Then as we drove through the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming we stopped to let Erve recover from the long uphills and go touch some snow. Matt took the kids to go touch the snow and just as they crested the hill a VERY LOUD alarm went off in Erve! I could smell LP so I went to reset the LP detector but it didn't help. I was sure that Erve was going to blow any minute so I ran out to get Matt. I ran towards where they were and as soon as I saw them I started yelling, they couldn't hear me. I finally got Carter's attention and I waved for them to come back. He happily waved back at me. Finally Matt looked up from his camera and I yelled as loud as I could. Eventually he recognized my agitated state and put down his camera and they all started running back. Couldn't you hear that? I asked. Carter said, "Yes, but Dad said it wasn't our RV". By now, others were running back to the one other RV in the parking lot and lots of other people were just staring. Turns out it was the carbon monoxide detector. We had the windows open because it was so nice outside and when we stopped, the exhaust fumes came in the back window. So, since we had become the spectacle at the scenic overlook rather than the scenery, we decided to move on. :S

Over the mountains we went and as we came down off the mountain all of a sudden, I heard a flapping noise and then I thought it was on the roof. Oh no! The awning had come loose. It was VERY VERY windy in these parts and it must have been just too much for it to handle. So, we pulled over and extended the awning and rolled 'er back up. And onward we went.......

........and eventually made it to Cody, WY and picked up our rental car. They were out of the economy car we had reserved so we were forced to upgrade to a SUV, a Dodge Journey which is a really nice car, but that was another $10 a day plus multiple other $10 a day that we weren't anticipating. It got to be quite expensive. And who knows what kind of repair bill is waiting for us back in Wisconsin! But at least we won't be driving Erve around Yellowstone!

As we drove into the park for our first night at Canyon we encounter several wildlife traffic jams!! Yeah! this is looking good. This is what I am looking forward to most on our trip.