Lens, what lens.

Pioneer RV Park, Whitehorse YT (1 star)

Lee went for groceries while Lez did the laundry. After lunch, Lee decided to re-pack the back seat in Chuck to better wrap the tarp around the two tires stored back there. We had left them out for the trip to Tuktoyaktuk and Lee had not done a good job of repacking them. On the way back into Whitehorse the tarp was flapping in the breeze everytime we opened some windows. That's done now, and Lee took the time to take stock of what else is roaming around in the back seat.

You will recall a couple of weeks ago that Lee stepped in a gopher hole, tripped and had the camera hit the ground. That loosened the outer cover of the zoom lens and we could not figure out how to put it back. So, to be safe, we sent it to Edmonton to be fixed. In the meantime, we had an old fixed lens that we put on that camera as a temporary substitute. It has not been working very well and we have been relying on the other camera swith the bigger zoom lens (think standing back a long ways to take a nearby shot). Back to the back seat. There is one storage box left in the back and it contains some collectibles to be scanned, some other stuff and a box for a camera lens. What is inside, you ask. A fully automatic zoom lens! It's a close-up lens (18-55 mm) that we have not used since we started Roads Less Gravelled. Lee feels like he won the lottery - both cameras are fully operational.

Strange weather around here. For the second evening in a row we had a torrential downpour that flooded a lot of sites for a while.

Yes, even while travelling, laundry is a fact of life. LOL living close together day and night, a girl's gotta keep smellin' good ;)

The plastic tarp covering the tires and flappin away almost drowned out our conversations! But, it was a good thing because it all led to the discovery of the old lens (and several coloured filters too!)

Coloured filters are interesting, they give photos different shades. (Nowadays, cameras have that built in). In high school - truly decades ago - I was in an arts program with the minimum required classes to get into University. Imagine taking a few basic classes - math, lit, science and ART - painting, film - still and movie, pottery. Thanks mom and dad for letting me enroll at Central. Talk about timing, the highschool was closed a couple of years after that. Ahhh, the good ol' days.

I marvel at and wonder where all that water went. We didn't have rivers of water flowing past the RV, it just disappeared into the ground here.