What beautiful scenery!

We arrived in Moab, Utah on Sunday, Sept. 12th.

We will definitely enjoy the mountains more when we have a diesel pusher with an engine brake. You can only do so much with a gas engine and regular brakes. This is steep country! Especially for "flatlanders" like us.

We are working three campgrounds here and have visited all three. They are very lovely and the view all around is breathtaking with its red rock formations, canyons, and majestic mountain peaks. We can't wait to go visit Arches National Park which is close by. And Hole N" The Rock.

One thing we have noticed is the large number of rented RVs. Come to find out many are occupied by Europeans. They come over here to see the sights. Moab is truly a destination town with it's majestic La Sal Mountain Range, and Mt. Peale at 12,731 ft. We can see that out our starboard side.

I really love my office which is an 8 ft desk all across the back of the rig, with a window view of course. As I'm working in the office (when I'm not out on sales calls) I can see the weather systems develop over the mountains. It gets very dark. In fact, yesterday we noticed it had snowed on the mountain tops. Of course, today it's almost gone. Been getting rain up there today.

Not much trickles down to the valley below. But after working a couple of jobs in the Texas Hill country during triple digit heat the whole time (and a multi-year drought), the 50s & 60s feel very nice... what a relief!

Back to renting RVs. I'm looking out my back window and in the next row there are 7 rigs, 6 of which are rental units. I would venture to say the RV industry is far from dead. In fact, we are seeing a large number of big gas units in addition to diesel units.

I have to cut this short. Got to get ready to make some money tomorrow. We'd like to upgrade to our diesel pusher next year sometime. We were hoping it would be sooner, but we traded our 1997 Isuzu Rodeo for a 2009 Saturn Vue XR while we were in the San Antonio area. It was time. the Rodeo was running great, but it was 13 years old. Plus we were pulling it on a tow dolly. That definitely does have its minuses.

So after we bought the Vue, we took it to Ancira RV in Alvarado, TX and had them install a Blue Ox towing system. Sweet!!! We also purchased a Brake Buddy supplemental braking system. It's so nice to tow with all four wheels down. We also lost over 1,000 pounds by losing the Rodeo and the tow dolly. That's a good thing.

So until next time, may the wind be at your back,

Vicky & Bob Heron (Capt. Jack & Jesse James)

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