Still in Salt Lake and still having fun!

Foreground is the Mormon Tabernacle, the temple is behind the trees!

We are still in Salt Lake and are enjoying the great weather and the sights and sounds of Salt Lake City.  We are getting many answers to our family history questions and are happy to report that the Cannode family tree is verified back to 1696 in Hesse, Germany and the Lawrence family tree dates back to the 11th century to Sir Robert Lawrence of Ashton Hall England.  We have also managed to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearse, visit Temple Square and work on our motor home.

Yes, not all things are perfect in our world (it just seems that way; who wants to hear a grown man cry).  We arrived in Salt Lake City with our generator not working 100%.  If we disconnected the fuel line from the motor home's gas tank it worked great but that is not how it is designed.  It seems when we had the fuel pump fixed in Arizona they pinched the gas line resulting in no fuel to the generator.  Minor problem but $250 later it is fixed.  Also our CB did not work and we like to talk to our travel companions as we navigate down the road.  George worked for two days and finally gave up and bought a new antenna and coaxial cables to fix the problems.  He mounted the CB antenna on the back of the motor home which meant he had to string the cable 36 feet under the chassis to the cab and connect it to the CB.  George also managed to wash and wax the motor home and the car -- both needed the elbow grease!  But the good news is that the weather is great (a little rain during the night but beautiful all day), the mountains are green, the people are very friendly.

Tomorrow we will get up early and if "Arthur" does not show up on Pat's hands we will finally get our golf rounds in before breakfast.  She has been struggling with the arthritis in her hands but a fellow RVer told us about a cream that helps relieve the pain -- it seems to work a little so we are hopefully to get a round in tomorrow.

Plans for the future!  We are leaving Salt Lake City on Friday morning and driving to Flaming Gorge on the Wyoming and Colorado boarder.  From Flaming Gorge we will take the back way into Denver thru the mountains via Steamboat Springs and Winter Park!  By the way, our Colorado mountains still have a lot of snow so maybe we will catch a few pictures to post on our next blog entry.  We will be back in Colorado on Sunday, July17th and will stay until the end of the month (doctor's appointments).  The plans for August is to drive down to Mesa Verde to see the cliff dwellings, maybe a side trip over to the Grand Canyon (we are not sure if we will have time) and drive up to Blue Mesa to see our friends, Doug and April for a few days before heading back for the all important Pet Scan and a few more doctor's appointments at the end of August.  After that it all depends on the outcome of the Pet Scan (we think everything should be fine).  If all goes according to plan we will head east at a leisurely pace and end up in Indiana and Ohio in mid September for a visit with friends and family!  That is the plan but as we all know plans are just that plans and subject to change (being flexible is our strong suit).

As a side note, we have recently been reading two of our friend's travel blogs and they are amazing.  Tom and Maryann are traveling across Canada on her retirement trip and they are having the adventures of a life time.  They left Arizona on June 6 and will not return to Tucson until sometime in October.   Sue and George Summerfield are on their 42 foot trawler, "Next Adventure" and seem to love the idea of finding out what adventures awaits them just around the bend.  Good for both of these wonderful couples.  We can't wait for their next blog entries. 

As always we will wrap this entry up with a plea for all of you to get out and enjoy this wonderful country.  Adventures await all of us so take the plunge, if only for a day!