Moving to our first Harvest Hosts location

We finally left the Dixie National Forest (and I never found out why it is called "Dixie" being so far from the "south" or southeastern US) on Tuesday morning.

We decided to wait until we got onto Tom's Best Spring Road to hook up the Jeep, so I was following Gracie on the Forest Road (or Fire Road) from our campsite to Tom's Best Spring Road... seeing the dust kicked up by Gracie (even though we had gotten a sprinkling of rain on Monday)...

Where is Gracie?!?!? There was a point that Gracie was completely obliterated by dust...

Out on Tom's Best Spring Road, the gravel kept the dust down a little...

... the bikes, and the Jeep, and Gracie, are pretty much covered in dust. The rain on Monday was not enough to even try to get some of the dirt off (if we get a good rain, we will get our long handled brushes out and do some cleaning using the rain, but... it wasn't worth it on Monday).

We headed west on Utah 12 which meant that we went through the two tunnels again....

I thought I had noticed before that there is a route that avoids both tunnels but there are barricades (which can be removed) to allow big loads to bypass the tunnels (to the left in this picture).

In Gracie, the tunnels don't look quite big enough... but Carl straddled the center line and we were fine.

In the area of Red Canyon -- we had planned to do some hiking there but were not feeling well our last few days in the National Forest so look forward to doing that in the future.

After coming through Red Canyon, beautiful vistas as we came down to US 89...

We went through the town of Panguitch (which is pronounced something like "pan-wich", rhyming with sandwich). We had gone shopping at the small, but very nice, grocery store in Panguitch late last week.

We drove over to I-15 on Utah-20 which gave us beautiful views too.

A few weeks ago (end of March), we signed up to be members of Harvest Hosts (https://harvesthosts.com/). This is a membership organization that recruits businesses that may have room for RVs to spend the night in their parking lot to allow the RVs in with the benefit that the RVers are likely to spend money with their business. Many of the initial businesses were wineries, but there are a wide variety of businesses, including farms, museums, historical sites, and golf courses. Harvest Hosts had announced a fee increase for 4/1, so we signed up just before the increase. Tuesday night was our first opportunity to try staying at a Harvest Hosts location.

At our first Harvest Hosts location, Rowley's Red Barn, in Santaquin, Utah.

Rowley's Red Barn has a large selection of items - fresh produce, meats, ice cream, chocolates - in their store.

Some of the cherry trees on the property. They restrict availability of parking during harvest (mid September through end of October) when they use the overflow parking for their customers, but, during the other months of the year, they may garner some additional business with little additional cost by allowing RVers to park in their overflow parking lot.

One of the other rigs in the overflow lot with us - this is a HOST truck camper. I had seen one, I think, when we were parked in the National Forest near the Grand Canyon -- but I didn't get the brand name. They have interesting floor plans for a truck camper (https://www.hostcampers.com/floorplans/). The thing I can't figure out is how you get into the entry when the back and side slideouts are in...

We enjoyed sitting out beside Gracie while enjoying the evening. Although I-15 goes right beside the parking area, it was interesting to watch the traffic. Specifically, we noticed how many trucks had sleeper compartments... and it made us wonder how they are outfitted... bed? bathroom? kitchen?

Another sleeper cab.

We also find these cement/concrete trucks to be interesting/confusing -- it looks to us like they are being driving backwards (this one is moving from left to right).

An ABF triple without a sleeper cab

Another ABF (double) without a sleeper

I barely got this one - it was a UPS triple without a sleeper. I think Jimmy has told us that the UPS routes go from one hub to another and that the hubs are positioned just close enough that a driver can go from one to the other and back in a day, not requiring an overnight stay.

A view of the mountains across I-15 from us - it is really quite lovely, if a little noisy... it will be cool overnight and we will have our windows closed so it should be a good restful place to spend the night!