Relaxing, driving, hiking, cleaning

Well, it has been slow, which is good. Emo and I have driven all over LBL, in search of the good boondocking sites, and there are a lot of them. We get to drive the back roads, sometimes covering the Subaru with mud. When I get to a site, I let him out to swim, and take a break. There are about 10 or so places here that are easily RV accessible, where I can set up with the $14/yr. backcountry permit, that have a fire ring, table, nice gravel parking site, some shade, southern sky exposure for sat. TV, wonderful view, and lake access for swimming. If it wasn't 90 degrees in the middle of the day, these sites would be perfect. 

We have walked this entire campground several times, and yesterday we hiked the 5 mile Honker Trail in the heat. It's a great trail, mostly shaded, and halfway around is the ol' swimmin' hole, so Emo got a drink and a cool-off while I ate my apple. I plan to hike the entire Energy Lake loop tomorrow, 5-1/4 miles, and the 2.2 mile loop around Hemitite Lake before we go. Maybe some more hiking, I don't know, there are trails of every length available here.

Chores today, I checked the new last year Interstate deep cycle batteries, the water is well over the plates. I've started using water from the spigot here for Emo and for my coffee, and after doing dishes today, I still have over 1/3 a tank of fresh water, and the black and grey are fine, so I think we will make the entire 3 weeks without needing to run to the dump station! I also just finished cooking a pressure cooker full of navy beans with a big onion cut up in them, and I need to burn some stuff (why do they put so much paperwork with every prescription?).

AA tonight, my favorite step, step two. I plan to have everything packed up and even the car hooked up before next Wednesday morning, we will probably drive straight through. See ya'll late next week, then it's back to work. Maybe I'll get to blog some day hikes or long weekend trips, maybe even a motorcycle trip, who knows? Life is good.