It felt good to wake up to this after the previous day’s trials. Mount Whitney loomed over us from a short distance. Such fresh air and crisp vistas.
The greatest joy of being a boy. See if you can guess what it is.
After a couple days we needed to empty our tanks and get some water. I also needed to give the bus a little love. This BLM campground was just a mile further down the road. Much less interesting place, and filled with RVs, but still with nice views of the Sierra range.
I used this stop for tuning up the bus. After the beating it took climbing out of Death Valley I changed the oil, as well as the transmission oil. Best of all, I finally fixed an oil leak that has been driving me crazy for months. Everyone told me it was the rear main seal. They were sure of it. But that wasn’t it. I told everyone it was coming from the oil filter area. Turns out it’s the gasket that seats behind the oil filter assembly. I didn’t know it existed until I finally did some research. A couple wrenches on that bolt and the problem is solved. Seriously, I can’t tell you how happy that made me. Ali doesn’t seem to understand how much this small success means to me. My kids don’t understand. Nobody understands. I’m all alone in my oil-leak-solving ecstasy.
The winds got so crazy that our canopy started to pop out and then slam back into the bus. We secured both of them and then continued on, driving very slowly to try and keep the bus on the road.
When we got to our campground for the night the kids immediately discovered that it was filled with ladybugs. Ouest declared it the best campground ever based on this alone.
The campground is on the grounds of Keough’s Hot Springs which has this beautiful piece of history for us to enjoy. A hot-spring swimming pool dating back to 1919. It felt like such a step back in time. Based on the old pictures of the place, about the only thing that has changed is that the high-dive board is gone.
15 Comments on “Old School Pool”
So, you stopped to empty the tanks and get fresh water for the bus. I think that Lowe emptied his tank up on that rock!
Are the undeveloped pools still there?
As a kid I like the museum in Laws, just outside Bishop:
http://www.lawsmuseum.org/
not sure how it is these days.
I can share your oil leak solve ecstasy Pat, any drops of any fluid on my driveway and I am rushing to the toolbox. Engines aren’t supposed to leak – unless it is an old British car – which would drive me just crazy, Lucas electrics not withstanding.
And that’s the best part about being a boy, I think. 😉
Watching your urine stream fall hundreds of feet from a rock perch?
You guys made Keough! Awesome!
Chris and Byron LOVE that place!!
Say hi to the East Side for us!! 😀
BTW, love the shot of the kids around the picnic table there in the Sierra Nevada with…..oh, look!……a bottle of Sierra Nevada!! 😀
I feel you bro, when the simple tightening of a hose clamp solved my coolant loss/false temp reading on my 3208, I had the same warm fuzzy feeling!
‘Writing your name’ is the greatest joy of being a boy.
Nobody, but men, understands the sheer joy in fixing oil leaks, water leaks, etc. Go figure. 🙁
If someone could solve my oil leak in my 1994 Tracker, I am certain it would be an even greater joy than being a boy. 😉
She wasn’t leaking,just marking her territory…. kinda like Lowe.
The oil filter adapter gasket. Yup. I discovered mine was leaking only after replacing the RMS on my Argosy. Which involved jacking up the engine to remove the pan. The adapter gasket was changed out almost as an afterthought. Could have saved me hours and hours of work. And, a google search doesn’t say a darn thing about them, or any motorhome forum for that matter.
That’s Huge.
That’s the one. A ninety-nine cent gasket. I actually didn’t remove mine and replace it yet because of where we were. I didn’t want to mess something up and leave us completely stranded. Just tightened it up for now, which solved the problem. Next oil change it gets replaced for good. Such a relief.
I bought an old station wagon last year for almost nothing as it was pouring oil out the back of the motor, owner thought that it was the rear main seal, yep, oil filter adapter gasket.