Some more camping pictures

We had wanted to smoke a pork shoulder that we had purchased a few weeks ago (planning to smoke it when we were in Nevada), so Carl decided to do it while we were at the Jellystone park. It was large, almost 7 pounds, so he calculated that it would take about 12 hours to smoke. He started it at 10pm on Monday night and monitored it through the night (no pictures from that time period!), finally taking it off at about 11am on Tuesday...

Taking it off the grill

We unwrapped it and put it in a pan in the cooler (no ice, just to protect it) for it to "rest" before pulling it. The black skin is the "bark".

"Bark is formed when you caress perfectly seasoned meat with smoke, water vapor, and just the right amount of heat for hours on end until you are left with mouthwatering meat heaven." (https://www.napoleon.com/en/us/grills/blog/how-get-bark-when-smoking-meat)

Yum - delicious pulled pork!

When we got ready to leave on Wednesday, we found that the leveling jacks on Gracie had really sunk down into the ground, even though we had used rubber pads underneath them... this pad had been totally drilled through by the leveling jack, leaving part of the pad pushed through buried in the ground...

You can see the hole under the jack...

After we moved Gracie, you can see the rubber piece at the bottom of the hole!

We used the rubber pad and blocks under the back jacks as we were concerned about the heavy weight of the back of the rig digging into the ground -- and they dug in a little, but not as much as the front!

The campsites were on just grass - usually campsites are on gravel, or asphalt, or concrete. It has been pretty dry here, though there was a little rain last week -- I guess that was enough to cause the ground to get soft!