Category: Nevada

Moving Day, Sunday September 2, 2012

Today we move farther SOUTH.  It is 55 outside and that is to cold for vacation. We will drive back to Twin Falls and go south on Nevada Hwy 93.  Goal is to spend the night 50 miles south of Ely out in the middle of no where, it should be dark and warmer.

Sleepy Hank in the morning.

We are camped at a rest stop on Hwy 93 and it’s a beautiful evening. Here are some pictures of where we are spending the night. I’ve added a couple of additional pictures so I can later find the location.

Sunday night rest stop
I am here: 38 19.176 N 114 36.460 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:38.31961,-114.60767

Great evening.

9/3/2012 pictures did not post last night, I’ll try to republish or rewrite.

 

Traveling, NV – Sunday May 27, 2012

We left Richard & Vicki’s early but we didn’t get all that far for a while. We started the day at Walmart getting under the motor home putting oil in the hydraulic jacks. We developed a small leak that will be hard to reach.  May wait until we get home to fix it.

Finally got on the road at 8:30.  I decided it take highway 50 across Nv because we come out south of Salt Lake. We had a nice day and got to a rest stop in Beaver at 9:50 driving 579 miles. Martha (our phone GPS) says we have 112 miles to get to Zion.

Here’s today’s campsite pictures
This is a Utah state rest stop and Flying J truck stop in the same spot.

 

Richard’s – Sunday May 29, 2011

Vacation is about warm. 
Hank got me up at 6:30 and it is 51 degrees on the MH this is just not right.  We at least have SUN.

We had a great day however not to warm.  Had fun buying Vicki a new refrigerator, looked at everyone in town.  In the process I think Jean now knows what kind of towel hooks she wants in the bathrooms. 

The stuff on Richard’s car is snow. 
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Valley of Fire State Park, NV – Tuesday September 21, 2010

The text did not paste from OpenOffice.  I’m doing this again.

Vacation Monday 9/20/2010 and Tuesday

Monday we moved to Valley of Fire State Park north east of LasVegas.
Lot of red sand store and HOT sunny weather, 97 Monday and 96 on 
Tuesday.  
While driving to one of the many view points we drove through a 
rather deep wash area.  I was doing 20 miles per hour however 
that was to fast.  When we got to the bottom and started back 
up I heard a thump but didn't know what it was, thought it could 
have been the clothes closet door opening and then closing.  At 
the next view spot I went back to look and sure enough the back 
closet door was open.  It had an additional feature as the clothes 
closet rod had snapped and all the clothes were on the bottom 
of the closet.  
In all the stuff I carry one item is these 8 inch red velcro 
strips I get at Home Depot.  I used three of these strips 
wrapped around the pole and we have a useful clothes rod.
The park map has something I've never seen before on a park
map.  Three different view points are marked as possibly 
having cell phone service.  This could be a new feature on 
all maps.

Tuesday was also a hot day.  Hank was starting to look like 
a melted puppy so at 94 degrees we turned on the A/C, it's 
now 87 in the motorhome and he's a lot happier.  
Photo count for this trip is at 1615 and my camera just 
went over 10,000.

Added with update.
Tanya says I'm not to drunk post, however does it count if 
it's a Washington wine (and on vacation)?
Harry

 

Vacation Update – Monday September 13, 2010

It is Monday evening and I’m going to get caught up on our vacation.

We are at Utah Lake State Park on Utah Lake just west of Provo. Here’s what has happened:

Left home Thursday at 6:00 pm and drove until 11:00 pm., got to Wilsonville rest stop just south of Portland. 194 miles

Friday morning we were on the road at 5:30, got to Grants Pass at 10:00 a.m. And Richards at 7:40 p.m. 709 miles.

Saturday we went for a drive up into the mountain. Pretty much a paved logging road the sign at the bottom said up to 24% grade. It was a pretty drive. Had lunch at the top of the hill and returned to Richards.
Richard and I went to the rifle range which is just a couple of miles from his house to check the sighting on two of his rifles. He’s going hunt over the next couple weekends. They were both just fine. He let me shoot his .243 rifle. It’s been almost 40 years since I fired a rifle and I think I did pretty good. I’ll insert of picture of the 3 rounds I put into the target at 100 yards.

We then moved over to Vicki’s in Sparks. This will put us closer to Reno for the Sunday morning balloon races.

Sunday morning we left Vicki’s at 5:45 to go the the balloon races. I’ll attach some pictures, I took 493 all together. I’ll also put some into my google pictures later.

Sunday after noon Richard and I built a rack which attaches to the ceiling of Vicki’s garage so she can store her window sun shades during the winter.

Monday morning Jean and I left at 6:30 a.m and got to Utah Lake State Park just south of Salt Lake at 6:15 p.m. 562 miles for the day. This will leave us with 264 miles to get to Zion on tomorrow.

Night will do more later this week.