July 11

Catch up/ supply up/ repair day

What had intended to be a rest day and catch up day for the weekend has turned into a door project day for Flossie the Red Dale. One of the last projects we wrapped up in Denver was a complete door rebuild. Well we should have done a more thorough job of inspecting the back, what I’m calling “shed” door as well as the screen door. Both have taken a major beating these first two weeks. The aluminum hinge broke on the screen door one of the days in Dinosaur. And the fragile plastic slider that would be used to close or slightly open depending on how your using the door is completely coming apart.

The shed door, once taken apart and inspected has similar damage to the door we rebuilt. Water rot on the particle board that is sandwiched between two aluminum sheets.

So we will venture into Logan, Utah – only about a 15 minute drive from our camp spot to do laundry, get more ice for the coolers, and get supplies to fix these two doors. We originally joked that Zach would get bored too fast on this trip without ongoing projects to work on, we’ll we’ve all stayed busy enough just getting camp set up, enduring the long driving travel days, and now doing ongoing work on our old gal to keep her road worthy, safe, and useable