RV Manufacturer content pages are being moved from Haw Creek to new RV Manufacturer pages at rv.exit78.com
The first of the new pages, Class A Motorhome and Motor Coach Manufacturers, has been completed at the new location and the old page has been updated. Eventually, all new and updated content will be at the new location, but, for the near term, updates for the RV Manufacturer pages will continue to be made in both locations.
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We visited Arches National Park in 2007 and had hoped to do the same this year. However, with the contract job terms, it now looks like I will be working part of the time that we had planned for traveling.
This new photo gallery is from our 2007 travels. We were on our way home and had planned three nights and two days visiting the national parks in the Moab, Utah area. One of the two days was spent at Arches National Park.
It was our second visit to Arches. The first one was even briefer — just an afternoon, I think, on our way home from one of our vacations in the early 90s.
The day started out a bit windy and chilly. It was Karen’s birthday, September 24, 2007.
We took a couple of short trails. One of them went to — and around — Balanced Rock. The other trail was in the Windows Section and went to North Window and South Window Arches, as well as Turret Arch.
After lunch, we went to the Delicate Arch trail head parking lot at Wolfe Ranch. The trail is 3.0 (4.8 km) miles round trip. A short side trail leads to some petroglyphs.
There is no shade on the Delicate Arch trail and much of it is over open sandstone called “slick rock.” The National Park Service recommends at least a quart of water per person.
The trail is marked with rock cairns. At the end of the trail is the most famous arch in the park, Delicate Arch, which is used as a background for Utah license plates.
Even though the day started cool, by the time we were done, it was plenty warm and neither of us had any water left, though I had nursed mine until the very end. If it had been a warmer day, we would have needed more water.
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I’ve just completed the first photo gallery from our May trip. Images in it are from Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
I’m changing the scope of the blog.
Previously, it was “RVs, travel, hiking, camping, photography & more.”
To more accurately reflect what I want the blog to be, the tag line — and scope of the blog — has changed to “Images and Info about places — where we are, where we’ve been, and where we’d like to go.”
In keeping with the new scope of the blog, I’ll be posting random photos from all of the completed photo galleries on a regular basis. I’ll also be working to complete new galleries, build pages for places we’ve been, and research locations for our next trip
Laurel Falls,
Great Smoky Mountains national park.
I am in the process of gradually moving all of the Haw Creek content pages, except for the photo galleries, into a blog format. Since I spend more time working with blogs, it makes more sense just to work with one publishing platform. It will take a while to get it done, but hopefully, it’ll be somewhat transparent to site visitors.
The Haw Creek blog will be devote to topics related to camping and RVing. This blog, Haw Creek Out ‘n About, on the other hand will be used for travel related content. I’ll be publishing more material here related to places that we’ve been and online reference resources associated with them. I’ll also be publishing resource material for places that we either will be visiting or are considering visiting. And, of course, I will continue to publish some of my photography from the trips that we have taken.
As part of the process of change, this blog will also get a bit of a facelift.
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While the image on the left might appear to be a vintage photograph of Old Faithful erupting sometime in the distant past, it’s not. It’s actually an eruption that took place yesterday.
A remotely operated, live streaming webcam allows internet visitors to view real time images from the upper geyser basin. The controls are not available to the viewing public so you are limited to whatever view the camera operator has chosen. Fortunately, when I was watching yesterday, the camera was panned to Old Faithful as people began arriving to see the eruption.
The image is actually cropped from a photograph I took of my computer screen during the eruption. I tried to do a screen capture before the eruption actually occurred, but when I pasted the result into my photo editor, the video image block was black. So I grabbed my camera and snapped a few pictures while Old Faithful was erupting. Then, in my photo editor, I optimized the best image to get rid of the video look and, then, put the result through a filter to give it an aged look.
There are actually several Yellowstone National Park webcams. They provide images from Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and the fire lookout on Mount Washburn.
I’ll be publishing my new Yellowstone National Park images and resources page on Haw Creek soon.
This blog was started somewhere around or before April 2005.
Yesterday, I deleted all posts from before May 2008 — three years of blogging — somewhere around 400 or 500 posts.
Oh, the information in them isn’t lost. I’ve got it all saved on private pages, so that I can go back — if I so desire — and review it before final deletion.
As I was going through the process, I did see a number of posts that will be worthwhile reusing. After all, an old post reused is a new post to someone who has never seen it.
Many of the reused posts will be from the trips we took in 2007, some of the things we saw, and some of the things that happened to us we experienced.
In the links at the very top of the page, you’ll see one called Places & Links. That’s new and goes to the beginning of what I hope to be a valuable collection of links, where I can store links to travel, camping, and RV sites that are of interest to me — and that may be useful to others.
So far, I’ve included links from
- Travel To Patagonia Lake State Park – RV Dreams Journal
- Yosemite Explorer – Photos and Reviews of Yosemite Trails, Climbs and Ski Tours
- Experience the Awesome Natural Beauty of Canyon of the Eagles – Texas RV Travel Blog
- Matagorda Bay Nature Park on Texas Coast – Texas RV Travel Blog
- U.S. National Forest Guide , which I found on Camping with Suzi.
I will be adding more material in the near future.
Places
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Texas
General (links applicable to more than one state)
I’ve been publishing material on this blog for nearly four years and it’s never been what I would like for it to be — so I’m going to be making some changes in what’s here, how things are presented, and what I’m going to include.
I hope to write at least one or two posts a week about places we’ve been and things we’ve seen or other topics related to camping, outdoors, travel, or RVs. I may even resurrect and update some older material, if the content is decent and interesting. However, I do not envision a new post every single day.
I’ll also be posting links to interesting blog posts or web pages that other folks have published about their travels.
The Photo of the Day is going away. I’ll still be posting pictures, but they won’t be fillers for the text that’s not here. Each post will have photos related to the topics. If I can figure out how, Out ‘n About may end up having a sister photoblog, where the main focus is on the photos.
I’m also going to be deleting most of the older posts where the content is minimal, nonexistant or otherwise has little value and will be editing and reducing the number of blog categories.
Are you changing up your blog or website in 2009?
I’ve added a new Haw Creek travel page and on the What the Hay hay art contest in Montana, as well as a What the Hay photo gallery.
Note: some of the photo pages have links to larger versions of the images.
Held the second Sunday in September, What the Hay is a central Montana hay art contest stretching over 21 miles in Judith Basin County. It features around 50 or more creative hay bale sculptures in fields between the towns of Hobson and Windham.
wide display
I am implementing new photo galleries which will be used on the Haw Creek website in conjunction with travel pages on places we have visited. The gallery pages are designed to be viewable with most browsers and computer displays.
Currently, the only galleries in place are from Arkansas:
narrow display
I will be adding more galleries from Wisconsin, Illinois, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Utah, Colorado, and other places.
The travel pages associated with each gallery will provide useful content related to the places visited, including description, activities, phone numbers, directions and links to related, and useful, websites.
In revising the “Haw Creek” website, I moved some RV content to a new page: Fifth Wheel Camping Trailers – Some History.
A fifth wheel trailer is a camper that is designed to be towed using a special hitch mounted in the bed of a pickup truck. In this arrangement, the trailer is attached over the truck’s rear axle and wheels, which then supports a significant portion of the trailer’s weight.
The phrase fifth wheel refers to the connection of the trailer to the hitch in the bed of the truck. –more–
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