Salt Lake City

Is not my favorite place to hang out.... but it could be worse... yesterday we went out to the salt flats and over to Nevada for lunch and to grab a cache... we headed back to Salt Lake City and were on our way up to the copper mine... in fact.. we were at the gate... shut off the motor home to pay the guy... and then it would not run.. it started.. but did not even want to move out of the way of the gate.. Dave was able to move it just barley out of the way... and that was it... it just had to sit for an hour to cool down... totally frustrated the guys at the gate... they did not like us just sitting there... brought back our money and took our ticket.. no way they were letting us up the hill... it was another 4 miles straight up.... which we knew better than to even try.... when we changed the fuel filter the other day in Buhl.. in the parking lot of the auto parts store...we had hoped that was the problem and that it was all fixed... but... today we are sitting at the ford dealership ( will be getting a rental car soon) and the motor home is getting a new fuel pump... which is inside the gas tank.. which is a lot of work and a lot of money... will hopefully be back on the road tonight and only out $1,500 we did not plan on spending.

I do have to give credit to the ford dealership, Larry H Miller, for being totally awesome... they were about 3 days out on service schedule but were able to make some calls and move things around and get us in today... and they even had the pump we need... so this whole thing could have been a lot worse, knock on wood since it is not done yet. Dave is off picking up the rental car...and then I am hoping we are able to head up to the mine and then get some lunch and hopefully be back on the road by dinner time.

We know that owning a motor home.. and an older one.. that each year we have to put some money into fixing it up... every year we pick something big and something to prettifiy it... this year we did new tires for it.. and made cool arm rests and a console station for the chargers and drink holders and stuff (still hoping to do a blog post about all that since it turned out awesome and is working great) last year was brakes and we redid the benches at the table... next year we were thinking about redoing one whole wall of the motor home.. taking it off like we did the roof a few years ago and redoing the whole thing... but now that we have had this nice little suprise that might just wait another year and we can get away with calling the fuel pump next years project.

Off in the rental car to check out the copper mine and hopefully find a few caches for Utah... because as soon as we get this fixed... we are out of here and headed to Colorada and hopefully some trees and a bit cooler weather. Thinking since the four corners is under construction and we are tired of hot.. that we will skip the lower part and stay to the mountains a bit more.. we can do mesa verde and the four corners some other time.

~Michelle

We have been taking photos.. there are some on the flickr site... since being on the computer while we are driving is limited ny my tummy I am putting pictures there when I get a few minutes and some on facebook and twitpic.... once we make camp somewhere for a few days I will be able to do a few more.