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Cheboygan Gordon Turner Park

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Dad and Elizabeth took a nice stop by Cheboygan Gordon Turner Park.
According to Dad and Elizabeth, this place is “infested” with mosquitoes. They also got some nice lighthouse pictures.
The water at Lake Huron was cold, my toes had “migraines” lol.
I gotta say Lake Huron, you are one pretty cold and cool lake.

Elizabeth and Dad said “if you come in around in June, bring bug spray or some kinda bug repellent”.

There is nothing we didn’t like about Cheboygan and that is the mosquitoes, they were literally everywhere.

Thank you Cheboygan for a good time with the family.

Gordon Turner Park
1101-1183 N Huron St.
Cheboygan, MI 49721

Gone Tubing at Alcova Lake

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Today we are hanging out with Dad’s cousin Paul and he took us to Alcova Lake! We also had the pleasure of trying something new…Tubing! Amber was the only one, besides Dad, who actually went tubing. It was a super fun day and we all enjoyed it! We will definitely have to go tubing again!

Alcova Reservoir
Alcova, Wyoming 82620
GPS coordinates: https://youtu.be/U7WZCYzWMss

Thumbs Up Antelope Island

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Today we are hanging out with some more family members and visiting Antelope Island. Fun fact, the island doesn’t actually have any antelope on the island, only buffalo! The island was actually in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. It had amazing views but was HOT! You should take a visit if you are near.

Antelope Island
Davis County, UT
GPS coordinates: 41.054857, -112.238191

How-To Clean The Ice Machine

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Today, we are cleaning our ice machine! Since we’ve had it for a while now and used it a lot, we noticed that it had started to get really dirty. Not sure if it was stuff from the air or if stuff had started growing in the machine from the water.

Anyway, we had to take it apart. We took many different approaches, but must of them didn’t end up working. In the end we finally figured it out and it was actually simpler than expected. The longest part was trying to take the machine apart, since we didn’t exactly know what we were doing.

But, all in all, we got it apart and it was dirtier than we expected! We used vinegar water to clean it because we didn’t want to use soap, just in case some soap got left behind. Who would want to use soapy ice? NOT ME!

Then we had to put it all back together which was rather quick! For safe measures we ran some vinegar water through the machine to get any dirt or potential mold out of the pipes. Took about 3 to 4 batches of ice to get ride of all the vinegar water, but we did and now the ice machine looks and acts brand new!

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Shoshone Ice Caves

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Welcome to Shoshone Ice Caves.

This ice cave is really cool and historical place to see.

A young boy discovered this ice cave.

In the 1880s, the cave was an ice source for the town of Shoshone.
They shipped the ice out west. Inside the ice cave it has a slick wet board “bridge” to get down to the back of the cave.

The cave has about 5 feet of ice below you so you can’t break it.

It was about $32 for Dad, Amber, Elizabeth, and me Kaylla to get in there. It was really fun to explore.

Shoshone Ice Caves
1561 State Hwy 75
Shoshone, ID 83352
http://www.shoshoneicecaves.com/

 

HOW-TO RV Cutting Board Stove Topper

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Today, we are creating our own stove cover, a cutting board stove cover! We decided to remove our original one since when we put things like our instant pot on top of it, the cover would bend. So we bought a bamboo cutting board that was made to slide into cabinet. BUT, we gave it a different purpose. It was a fairly simple build and a better stove topper. We use it for cutting our vegetables on too! This was really simple and made things easier on us who work in the kitchen.

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Stokes State Park New Jersey

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Today we are visiting Stokes State Park in New Jersey! This park had free artisan water and some hiking trails, I think. The trees were amazing! They twisted and turned and grew out of each other, it was like something you would see in a movie! It was an amazing trip and definitely worth it!

Stokes State Park
1 Coursen Rd.
Branchville, NJ 07826
GPS coordinates: 41.185348, -74.796163

 

Watkins Glen Sate Park

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Today, we are visiting Watkins Glen State Park! It’s a gorge FULL of natural waterfalls. You take a long trail to see all these waterfalls, its a mild/rough rating and some parts of the trails are slick due to water from the waterfalls splashing on the trail. You can walk behind some of these waterfalls, which is super cool! Definitely great for taking those aesthetic pictures for Instagram, am I right? LOL! This place was really beautiful and definitely worth visiting, one of the best parts is that it is FREE! That’s right, it’s free entry! I recommend you visit if you can!

Watkins Glen Sate Park
1009 N Franklin St.
Watkins Glen, NY 14891
https://parks.ny.gov/parks/142/
GPS coordinates: 42.375958, -76.871255

 

Staining The Picnic Table

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Today was a different day. We stained our picnic table.

The color Amber chose was Chestnut brown. It kinda went on as a chocolate brown though.

We first sanded the table and then put some older clothes on and stained it.

We only stained the top, the sides, and the seats. We didn’t stain under the table.

 

How-To Rebuild RV Bed

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Today, we are taking out the jack-knife couch bed and building a new bed! We decided that Addie needed a better bed and we also wanted some more storage in that back room, so we made the best of both worlds. We used parts from the bed that went underneath the jack-knife couch for the new bed. The new bed was raised 12 inches off the floor, so we could slide totes underneath Addie’s new bed. It was a fairly quick building process for us, and we really like it! How we did it is in the video!