Thread: Tsunami's Account Talk

Originally Posted by Tsunami

I made it to Bryce Canyon City, boy am I pooped, a long but fun day of driving/hiking and photos...I went up Cottonwood Canyon Rd....not for sedans like mine but I did it, 40 miles of rocks and bumps and washboard roads and just unbelievably beautiful scenery, and I only saw 3 other cars over 3 hours!
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PessOptimist, yep I think I remember seeing that near the Glen Canyon Dam viewpoint. What the heck is that tunnel at the end of Tunnel Access Road for, do you know?

Been 20+ years since I drove down that thing. It is access to the power plant level. Could be quite exciting if you met a tour bus while driving a dually utility body truck. It is supposedly 22 feet wide but two 8 foot wide vehicles plus mirrors made it seem plenty close. Don’t know if busses still have access, likely not according to the below from the USBR site about the dam.

https://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/crsp/gc/#vehicle
There is a two mile (3.2-kilometer) dam-access tunnel through the east wall of Glen Canyon that begins on the mesa. The tunnel was blasted prior to construction of Glen Canyon Dam in order to transport heavy equipment and supplies to the canyon floor. The holes in the wall are adits or “windows” that were initially blasted out for the purpose of allowing excavated rock to be dumped to the river banks below. The adits now allow for circulation of air in the tunnel. The dam-access tunnel is not open to the public.

Enjoy your trip and be careful.
PO

Originally Posted by tsptalk

I just read your post about your encounter with the TSP. Thanks. But I'm also interested in hearing about this 84-day vacation. Care to share your experiences as you go? Sounds like fun!

Thanks for the posts about my trip everyone. Tom, I'm close to you right now and since the forecast is for flash flooding in Capitol Reef National Park (I'm in Torrey for 3 nights) I'm planning to switch days and go to Goblin State Park tomorrow.

I just finished updating a Google Photos page that I'm using to chronicle my trip. Today I added pics of Bryce Canyon and Devils Garden, which is 12 miles down the "Hole in the Wall" Road from Escalante. It was a perfect day, with the thunderstorms staying far enough away. The only downside is 7 of the 12 miles of road are of the horrible rough washboard type, not great for my Honda Accord Hybrid. But I'd been there once before and wasn't going to be deterred. My wife joins me next week, on day #21 when I get to Sacramento, for four days of visiting our kids in central California, then we head up into the Redwoods and slooowly up the Oregon coast. I love southern Utah so this is a highlight of my trip.

Here's the Google Photos page link. It's meant mostly for my family, but what the heck, enjoy! I'm finding that my cell phone actually takes better pics than my old Panasonic digital camera, but if I find time I'll eventually add photos from that camera as well, which includes some nice panoramic views. If you click on the first pic that will blow it up bigger, then you can scroll through them to read comments I've added to some of them.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UJNZnrTpCLrxN1UB9

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Bryce Canyon is like being on a different planet.

I camped there one night off the back of a motorcycle and, I agree, certain viewpoints made me feel like I was on another planet.


Scott Harrison
Senatobia, MS

Enjoying my week at Mt. Rainier, and yesterday was Mt. St. Helens, both near where I grew up.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UJNZnrTpCLrxN1UB9

As for the market, same as it ever was...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rll6yu8yMAQ

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Those pictures are AMAZING, especially some of the wildlife. Looks like an absolutely wonderful trip and congratulations on 28 years! Thanks for sharing!

Yes, very good photos. Not just the content, which is great. I can't believe you had time to stop at the moon!

My long road trip is in the home stretch, six days to go. Today we'll be strolling Mackinaw Island. Looks like we might be returning home into the jaws of a hurricane in west/central Florida though, yikes.

Question: Does anyone know how often the G fund rate is adjusted? Seems like it should be daily but they've been increasing the G fund share price by the same 0.0016 amount pretty much every day for a long time despite interest rates soaring.

I've been following Master Panda Wu almost religiously this year in my Roth IRA (but not my TSP until recently), and wow am I doing well this year thanks to Wu...my IRA is now up over 500% this year, no exaggeration. Actually much more than that this morning since I'm holding a ship load of SPY Sept 30th puts. Thank you Wu! I might need those gains to buy a new roof soon.
https://twitter.com/MasterPandaWu/st...890947/photo/1

Thanks for the update. That went fast.

Here's a thread where the G-fund return is discussed and updated...

Monthly return rate - G


Panda Wu - way to go!

https://twitter.com/jessefelder/stat...19692612149248

I bailed out today, maybe too soon, but I think this is just a typical bear market relief rally.