Travel to Escapade, 5/4/14

Day 2, Sunday, May 4, 2014
Nevada

This morning, when we stepped out of our trailer, we could see some traces of snow on the distant mountains.  Here you can see our campsite for last night.

We were driving through the high desert of Nevada and I thought it was so interesting to see how the mountains seemed to rise from nowhere, right out of the flat land.  Look closely at the top of this mountain.  (By the way, for anyone who may not know, if you click on any of the photos in my post, you will see a slide show of all of the photos in that post and they will be much larger.)

Here is what I discovered, when I was editing my photos from today.   It seems that there were some radar antennas as well as other antennas perched on top of the mountain.

 I liked the different shades of green that made a colorful design on this mountainside.

We had a tunnel to go through as we traversed Nevada on I-80.  There are actually four tunnels - one for each direction of the freeway and one for each direction of the railway. 

We entered the tunnel.

This is what was on the other side.  There was a lot of construction going on.  and the mountainside was interesting with its strips of brown and green.

I think this is the most snow coverage that we have seen so far on this trip.  Again, the mountains seem to come out of nowhere.

We are camped for the night.  Tomorrow is another travel day.  As we go into Utah right at the beginning of our drive, we will change to Mountain Daylight Time from Pacific Time.

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 10/14-16/13

Traveling Home from Albuquerque

Yesterday was the final day of the Balloon Fiesta.  We started driving toward home then spent last night at the Meteor Crater RV Park.  This morning, we continued on the way home.  We drove to the Bullhead City, AZ / Laughlin, NV area where we discovered a great county park along the Colorado River.  It is Davis Camp Park which is one of the Mohave County Parks.  Davis Camp is actually a small village that was built for the workers on the Davis Dam on the Colorado River.  Now the County Parks have made the area into a very nice campground.  There are dry camp areas, full hook up sites and some of the remaining original cottages have been converted to cabins to rent.  The sites are first come first served so, since it was off season, we had lots of choices.  We opted for a site without hookups as the weather was not too warm and cooled off at night and those were right along the river.  This is our campsite for the night of the 14th.

Looking down from a hill that was across from the site.

Right on the river

Earl found some friends

Lots of water sports and activities were going on behind Earl.

We went out to dinner at the Riverside Casino in Laughlin, NV, just across the river.  This was a very nice place to spend the night.

 

The next day, the 15th, we drove to Edwards Air Force Base Famcamp in CA.  We have stayed here many times when we are traveling to the Southwest on I-15, I-40, or I-10.  It is a good distance from home that we can make in a 8 1/2 - 9 1/2 hour drive.  This time, we had an unusual experience,  There was a coyote just passing through the campground.

Just passing through

Coyote in Edwards AFB Famcamp, CA

We drove the rest of the way home on the 16th.  We stopped for dinner at Pea Soup Anderson's in Santa Nella, CA.  Great pea soup and chocolate shake for dinner!

 

We're home now.  I will post more when we take our next trip.