Month of JUNE recaps

6/30 mon: Did some geocaching in an area call Buffalo Ranch. Then onto Flagstaff to see a movie "Get Smart"- funny.

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6/24 tue: Nice Drive to Gallup NM. Old Town do the famous Route 66. Lots of history there. Had lunch at El Rancho built in 1930. Famous place where the movie stars stopped overnight when using the train. Did some geocaching. Went onto a area , Continental Divide. see pic. Then back to RV.

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6/23 mon: Took Ed from the Crater to do a geocache near a Bridge (built in 1903). Still used by the cattlement. It was part of the Rt66. Then onto flagstaff for a movie. The "Happening". Interesting but didn't like the ending. Stopped at Flagstaff Mall off I-40- shopped at Best Buy for external hard disk drive.

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6/15-17: Left sunday afternoon to see Russ in Prescott Valley. Only a 2hr drive. We did some geocaching and hiking monday am. Then a ride to Prescott in the mountains. Neat town.

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06/09-11 : Geocaching and hiking. Love the place call Bullfalo park in Flagstaff. All kinds of hiking trails. Then on wed off to see the Old Caves Crater. Great hike.

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6/02 went to Pinetop near Show Low. Met Ed (from the Crater) and his friends, Bill&Carol. Nice lunch in town. Then to their home. Bill is a Car collector-whow. Ownes about 6 of them. From there we went to the Casino. End of the day back to the RV park. Did some geocaching next to a small community lake.

Month of May

5/4- 5/06 Getting settle in here at the MC RV park. Did some geocaching near by.

5/07 wed: Orientation day at the Visitor center at 4pm. Earlier, met some of the employees. Will be working 4 ten hour days with 3 days off.

5/08 thur: Started in the gift shop. day2- in the Rock shop. day3/4 in the Admit booth



5/13 tue: Woke up to snow. It lasted until noon. fun.

Workamper at Meteor Crater AZ

AT the end of Jan '08 I went to a JobFair in Mesa AZ. The event had many different types of employers. Came accross the Meteor Crater booth. After some talking about the job duties I decided take on the job. The job would start 5/06 thru Sept 15.
Meteor Craer is located off of I-40 (exit 233) between Flagstaff,AZ and Winslow.

Traveling to Meteor Crater

5/02 friday : Leaving Yuma to travel to the crater. Going thur Quartzsite & Parker to the I-40. In Parker I encounter a flat tire on the RV. Was able to get to Discount Tire. The front tire was still under warranty and it was replaced with min charge. Because it was late in the day, they allowed me to stay over night in the parking lot.
5/03 sat: Nice drive getting to the MC RV park. Got checked in and was given a packet regarding my schedule. I'm at site #58 which has a nice view of the mountains looking west torwards Flagstaff.

New Hobby - Geocaching

While at Kachess lake, camphosts, Ron/Charmaine got me interested in geocaching. Its like a treasure hunt (without the treasure) by using a GPS handheld device. After Labor Day wkend they took me out to do 3/4 caches. I was hooked. What fun. This sport/hobby is very popular thru out the world. Want more info, go to http://www.geocaching.com/

Did geocaching around the Washingtion area, then in Canada (my visit to see Joe/Robb) and on the way back home (Yuma AZ).




Cache container



They got me started on geocaching


My first find

Camp Host-Wash.- Kachess Lake- '07

As a Workcamper, I applied for this job at the Quartzsite RV show in Jan '07.
Since I just started this Blog in Jul'08, I'm going to recap some of the events here.
I was at Kachess Lake (75 mi east of Seattle) Campground from May to Sept '07. I had the smallest camp loop (there were five loops), Gale Creek with 20 sites. My duties included taking care of the camp sites, collecting fees, cleaning restrooms (5 Bldg's) and a picnic area. On the weekends, I helped at the Boat launch area in directing traffic & parking. Fun. Then sometimes in the Admission Booth (entry to campgrounds) which was open from thursday thru sunday.
Each camp loop had its own camphosts (couples) and our Supervisors Larrine/Marvin. Camp loop ?? was Bunny/Jay; loop ?? was Bob/Jeanie and loop ?? (2 big ones) Elain/Mary. we tried once a week (sunday) for a pot luck at the SV Cabin area.
Very busy place during the week and very very busy on the wk ends. Memorial Day, 4th July and labor day was a "zoo". Once in while you did have a camper(s) having to much to drink or party time. Over all it was a great adventure. After labor day all the camphosts left. I was asked to stay on to help the supervisors close the campgrounds. I departed on 9/24.
During my stay there, I had friends come in for a visit. Joe/Robb from Canada; Russ from Greely, CO; Nancy/Lisa from Calif; Don C from Calif and then local friends in the area- Chuck/Jerry and Ken from Seattle. Wonderful times.

Kachess Lake

Marvin,Elaine,Mary,Me,Bunny
Laraine,Jeanie,Bob (Jay not there)



Me at the Admission booth