Not The Painter

May 6, 2026  — Day 43 Antelope Point Marina & RV Park, Page AZ We were plugged in all night long and yet we found that our batteries were not at 100% in the morning. We had reached 100% but were now discharging. How odd. Paul has been working on some battery monitoring software and it has helped us a lot, and it agrees with the Victron app, we’re not charging. It rises to 100% ((920Ah) and then falls. And the remote says we’re not charging. We’ll figure this out later. The washer, dryer work, and refrigerator work. Let’s keep loading and unloading dirty clothes, towels and sheets for what…

May 5, 2026  — Day 42 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT — Antelope Point Marina & RV Park, Page AZ It is always good when moving day starts off pretty. And looking the other direction…. We’re not going far, just over to Page, AZ. Why? We don’t know when we’ll get hookups again and we need to do laundry! We’ve been boondocking for 10 days with no hookups whatsoever. We run the generator to get power when we need to. We’re running about 3-5 hours a day. We’ve filled up with potable water once. But eventually you have to move on because at Lone…

May 4, 2026  — Day 41 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT We took today off. Maybe we took two days off? We just don’t remember. It IS May 22nd as we’re typing this blog. All we know is that in the evening we were playing Astro on PlayStation 5. We have no idea what to do with that. So Paul cheated, he just asked Claude. We’re supposed to free that poor bot. We have no idea how to do that. We’d better play more and figure out how.

May 3, 2026 — Day 40 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT This is a long post primarily of pictures, not walls of text. So it’s ok. Put your phone on silent, get a cold drink, put your feet up and dive in. We have two things to do today! Visit the Toadstool Hoodoos and then drive the nearby Cottonwood Canyon Road. But first we’ll stop in at the Visitor Center for stamps in our book! We’re a sucker for a Visitor Center. Sadly, it was closed. We had read that might be but we hoped it was open. You see, supposedly they had a…

May 2, 2026 — Day 39 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT Today was a slow do nothing day. This is one of the advantages of being on the road for so long, and staying in one place for an extended period. You can just take a vacation day now and then. (susan here: “taking a vacation from your vacation”—Yes, I know it sounds funny but you can actually have too much adventure!) The only thing we really did was head into Arizona. It sounds far but we are just across the border. We were heading for the Pilot Gas station. As it turns out…

May 1, 2026 — Day 38 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT We wanted an easier day today, so we figured we’d drive around and see what we could see from the Jeep. Not randomly mind you, we did have destinations in mind. First up was to make it to Lee’s Ferry. This is the site where you can drive right up to the Colorado River. You can read about the history of Lee’s Ferry on the nps.gov site. Basically, the settlers wanted the unoccupied land, which actually had been occupied for millennia. We see that history repeat itself a lot. But anyways, we got…

April 30, 2026 — Day 37 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT Boat day! Our guide left the marina and made a quick stop at the dam since it was on the way. But better, Paul got to see the spillway doors! Achievement unlocked! (susan here: it was kind of cool seeing the dam from the other side down at water level.) We didn’t get any closer than this. Like all dams it had floating string of buoys to keep you from getting too close to keep you from being sucked into the power turbine tubes. Lance assured us, even though we couldn’t hurt the…

April 29, 2026 — Day 36 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT Today we get to make our hike in Antelope Canyon, probably the most famous slot canyon around. Canyon tours are huge business here. There are countless tour companies offering the unique experience, except it’s not that unique because visitors to the area have countless options available to them. It seems each company owns a part of Antelope Slot Canyon. Everybody wants the “beams of light in the sand photo” except that’s not what we wanted. We looked for something different. We found Lester and Rose Ann’s (neither of us are sure how she…

April 28, 2026 — Day 35 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT We did get to experience some rain. Well, more like a very light sprinkle but it counts! We were pretty excited today, we were heading out to visit Antelope Canyon by boat! What you can’t see in the photo is Lance, the Captain’s, face. He’s worried. His boat holds 6, 5 are on board and two are walking down the dock. We showed up a day early! No big deal, we were able to rebook for two days later since we have already scheduled a walking tour of Antelope Canyon the next day.…

April 27, 2026 — Day 34 Lone Rock Beach Campground, Glen Canyon Recreation Area, Big Water, UT Today we adventure. First up was Biidi The Arch aka the arch behind the Shell Station. This is no longer a hidden gem since anyone who Googles Page finds out about it. Supposedly you park at the Shell station, walk a short distance, and then you are at the Arch. The actual arch area has a parking lot that holds about 20-30 cars. When we got there it was partially full. The scenery was nice enough but it was nothing special (we say 9 days later). At the time it felt special to…