My Life and Travels
Over the last several days I have updated the blog covering some of the things we have done during this outing. Something new is the balloon videos I took during Fiesta, they are on October 10th.
Marley has been enjoying this campground at Cochiti Dam it’s has some grass for him to pee & poo on.
Today’s drive to this state park, we have spent many nights here, site 13.
Driving across Nevada on Hwy 50.
First leg of outing complete, Richard & Vickie’s for several days.
Another travel day, 201 miles.
We are at a rest stop 2 miles south of Orovanda, NV. The area is not marked with parking spots so I pulled up along the outside corner so we can put the bedroom slide out to night. It is hot and we are running the air conditioners. The rear coach storage bay is 105.
It is smokey here as is most of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and norther California.
Today’s drive 148 miles.
We are in site 3 for the holiday weekend. We have good cell/internet on this side of the park, last time we were here we stayed in site 13 and it was terrible. A sign on the water says we need to boil the water, they may have a contamination problem. Glad we travel with water, we still have 50 gallons and are good for a while.
We hav been here many times over the years. All the sites are non reservable so it is great for just stopping in mid week. We have set out several major storms. A couple of years ago I-15 was washed out south of St. George and all of I-15 traffic had to go by here for several days.
Weather forecast here
This is for Virgin River BLM Campground we were going to go too.
Bought two bags of potato chips at Costco in Bonney Lake and between this one and the one behind it they grew to the point where I had to open this one to get it out of the cabinet.
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.
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.
We are still in Richland enjoying the Garcia’s hospitality. Tanya and Mike are taking a short vacation so Jean and I are taking care of Bryn and Jack for a couple of days.
I have drafted out our fall trip from the big house to Navajo Dam. The current plan is to leave August 21 and arrive at Navajo Dam on September 11 for two weeks of fishing. Then it is on to Albuquerque, NM for the balloon fiesta. Then someplace and back to the big house in time to see the Village’s production of “The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee” in Everett before it closes on November 17th, we can purchase tickets starting August 7. Brian is playing the school principle.
60 miles – Salmon Cove Group Campsite on Hwy 410, WA
150 miles – Hermiston Rest Stop, ID
330 miles – Bliss Rest Stop, east of Glenns Ferry, ID
300 miles – Pony Express Rest Stop, north of Ely, NV
235 miles – Virgin River Canyon Campground, I-15, AZ
170 miles – Lees Ferry, AZ
190 miles – Gooseneck State Park, UT
170 miles – Navajo Dam, NM
1605 total miles
378 miles to nice quiet rest stop out in the middle of nowhere. We have stayed here several times.
