My Life and Travels
State park on the way to big house, could have gone to a rest stop but the park was nice on a sunny day. We got the last none reserved site in the park and this way I could dump the holding tanks.
Rest Stop while traveling
The rest stop on the north side of the highway was closed. It was only 2 miles to the next exit so we could turn around and spend the night at the south bound rest stop. This side of the highway had a parking spot that was actually flat, a good night.
Rest Stop getting ready to drive through California.
We left Big Bend and headed toward the big house, 223 miles today.
At Big Bend we were 2244 miles from the big house, 1345 from Atlanta, GA and 1904 Washington DC.
Campsite picture
I am updating this post in directly into WordPress so I can put pictures into galleries. The app I use on my Ipad does not have a gallery option.
Still moving south, stopped at Walmart in Twin Falls so we are set for milk and bread until Navajo Dam
Today’s drive 271 miles.
Rest Stop campsite, this place filled up last night.
Today’s drive 256 miles
Spent 4 hours at an Oregon Trail Information Center just east of Baker City.
It was interesting, we were here maybe 12 years ago. I forgot to look up the date before I started this post. ( update May 1, 2002 was the date )
We are at a really big rest stop that we have stayed before.
I did get a spot next to a light pole.
Parking here we can have the bedroom slide out tonight.
We had to be out of Salmon Cove by 11:00 a.m. today.
Today we start heading south toward New Mexico. It was sad to leave the Garcia’s we will not see them again until the end of November. The next few days will be traveling and nights at rest stops.
I do think we have a change in plans. Our original plan was to spend the holiday weekend at Virgin River Campground which is just inside Arizona between St George, Utah and Mesquite, Nevada. When we got internet today I found out it is going to be hot there.
Look at the daily forecast for the next week. The Virgin River Campground has no hook ups and NO shade, not a tree or a bush in the place. I think we will go to Cathedral Gorge State Park in Nevada that at least has electricity we should be able to get into on Wednesday.
Today’s travels.
Good drive today 388 miles.
Little rain the last hour.
Campsite
Big dust storm in southern Cal today. We were on the road and moving at 5:30 a.m. this morning and got 509 miles north. We had wind all day mostly in the 20 to 30 some 40’s.
It is getting cooler.
After a week at Death Valley.
Here is today’s drive
This is the second time I I posted this, my cellphone connection died in the middle of a upload and trashed the post and my login. Took 45 minutes Tuesday 4/9 to get logged in.
I will catch up we get to the big house, Tuesday 4/9 ended up being a 509 mile day but we are out of the dust storm in southern Cal.