JC McDowell and the Family Unit

Ughh- I just finished installing a new oil cooler hose on the suburban. What a mess! It took me half a day yesterday and about half a day today to snake this four foot hose from the front of the engine compartment to the back of the oil pan.

Whoever though it was a [read more...]

Fate intervenes again!

I’ve been wanting to get a better mountain bike. One that actually is sized correctly. We brought a bike from the St. Simons house back with us and I don’t know how we got it originally, but needless to say we’ve had it a long time. Everything works fine but [read more...]

We have a week before we start the Park County Fair in Powell, Wyoming. Normally we might have just headed towards Powell and stayed in town until the fair. As it turns out, Hil has friends that live in Lander. Even more surprising, her mentor from Jackson is in town for the [read more...]

We wrapped up the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming and headed off to Lander where we will visit friends and make repairs until the Park County Fair starts in Powell, Wyoming on the 27th of July.

As I drive our motorhome through the incredible landscape towards Lander and pass all the motorhomes pulling [read more...]

It’s day seven of the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming. Three more days of work until we’re done but I’m wearing down. Each day I sleep a little later trying to catch up from the 8-14 hour days. It wouldn’t be so bad if I was really busy but [read more...]

We’re into day three of the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo. The Carnival opens before the rest of the Fair and Rodeo and we’ve been selling donuts and frozen drinks during the Carnival hours. We don’t have to but since people are here it’s an opportunity to make some more dough (pun intended). [read more...]

Time is our greatest asset but it is not necessarily our friend.

We’ve passed through three states now and we’re nestled into Casper, Wyoming for the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo. The show lasts a total of 9 days, the first 3 days are exclusively the carnival and then the rest of the [read more...]

We’re pulling up stakes again and heading to Casper, Wyoming today. We’ve been in Grand Lake, Co for over a week now and it’s time to head on to the next show. Grand Lake is still a small community and they like it that way. The community works hard to actually limit [read more...]

We’re in Grand Lake, Colorado which is a small town surrounded by a HUGE Glacier Lake. The main source of income in Grand Lake is/was real estate and tourism. A local we talked to at the Lariat Saloon said the businesses here have three months to make their money for the whole year. [read more...]

We just finished two Festivals in the Salt Lake area.  The first was in Springville and it rained basically every day.  The second was Westfest in West Valley City.  Talk about night and day!  The two towns are separated by about 30 miles but the demographic is about a continent apart.

The Springville show [read more...]