Category: Nevada

Cathedral Gorge State Park – Tuesday September 9, 2014

We made it through all the bad weather.  What was left of hurricane Nordbert came through here yesterday and made a mess of things just to the south of us.  We made the right decision to stay here and set out the storm.  One of the campgrounds I had targeted to go to is on the Virgin River in the area where Hwy I-15 got washed out.  We’ll have to wait and see if the campground is even still there.  The whole town of Mesquite, Nevada lost power and is not supposed to it back until today.
We have been here so long I think we need another campsite picture.

This is the satellite TV antenna using firewood to keep it from blowing over.  I also have an arrangement to use water as the weight to hold it in place, you’ll get to see that later.

We will be leaving here tomorrow (Wednesday September 10) for out two weeks at Zion, from what I have been able to read this morning all the Virgin River destruction was south of St. George and everything at Zion is fine.  Like yesterday the internet connection comes and goes.
We don’t have clouds like this at home so I am obligated to take pictures and show them.

I will not bother you with any more today, however I do have more.

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Monday September 8, 2014

We are still at Cathedral Gorge setting out the weather.  This seemed like to be a good place to be with all the potential flooding the weather channel was talking about over the last several days.  I talked to one of the park people and he said he hoped we’d get some rain but we would not have any  flooding here in the park.
This place does have a of interesting formations.
It has been a little hot for Hank, he really wanted to play with one of these bones but it was just to warm to move.

This was the clouds a hour before it started to rain.  Started at 12:30 and lasted 15 minutes, nothing like they got in Phoenix this morning.  The ground got wet and cooled things off a bit and that’s about all the rain for now.  Still a nice day in my book.  We got some wind Sunday at dinner time with a little rain.  The wind did help to coat the inside of the motorhome with a nice layer of dust.  Still have some thunder so we may get more rain, we’ll see.

We may leave here Tuesday if the weather clears up and definitely on Wednesday.

 

 

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Saturday September 6, 2014

We are still at Cathedral Gorge and the weather has been great, normal for the Southwest.  Hank and I have run the A/C a couple of times and that has been nice.
Tomorrow we are leaving to move a little further south.  Going to either Virgin River Canyon Campground a BLM area 20 miles south of St. George, Utah (into Arizona) or Sand Hollow State Park outside Hurricane, Utah.
Hank and I have been up and out each morning for a nice walk before the sun gets to high in the sky and hot.

If we end up at the Virgin River Canyon Campground I’m pretty sure we will not have cellphone coverage for a couple of days.  We will be at Zion National Park on Wednesday 9/10/2014 and we should have good coverage there.

Be well, Harry

 

 11:00 a.m. update.

Just looked at the weather maps for the hurricane which is moving north from Baja.  We’ll look at the maps again tomorrow and decide where we are going or if we’ll stay here.  South of here may get 1 to 3 inches of rain.

 

 

Rest Stop East of Austin, NV – Monday September 1, 2014

Left Vicki and Richard’s at 9:45 for parts east and south. 

I pulled into a Pony Express historical site for lunch, great place for lunch, not big enough for me to turn around in with the car in tow.  After lunch I got to unhook the car so I could backup to get back on the road.  Oh well, I hope I don’t do this to often.

This is where we spent the night.
I am here: 39 29.877 N 116 30.31 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.49796,-116.50517

Spark’s, NV – Sunday August 31, 2014

We all went to the Reno City Park which has a lake to Paddle Board.  Vicki took up paddle boarding a couple of months ago and she let me use her board while two of her friends came with their boards. It was great fun and I didn’t fall in the water.  That is really quite good for me because I don’t have the greatest sense of balance. I got up and down maybe 10 times and managed to keep myself dry. 

While Vicki and I were paddle boarding Jean and Richard looked at RV’s.  Jean didn’t find anything she liked better than our current motorhome. 

Spark’s, NV – Saturday August 30, 2014

We went to the Reno BBQ Ribs Cook Off in downtown Reno in the area around the Nugget Casino.  Looked around at a lot of the craft vendors there must have been well over 100.  It was hot and all ribs venders wanted between $7.00 to $11.00 to try a sampler of four ribs so we went inside the casino and had a nice lunch with air conditioning.

Orovada, NV – Thursday August 28, 2014

Had a nice drive to this highway rest stop one mile south of Orovada. Traveled 450 miles all on two lane roads with speed limit of 55 mph. Left at 10:00 am and got here at 8:30 pm with only one truck and one trailer. I’ll have to take campsite pictures in the morning because it was already dark when we arrived.

We did see a lot of smoke from Oregon’s four large fires :-(.
The trip:

Pony Springs Rest Stop, NV – Sunday September 1, 2013

We have stopped for the night 6:30 p.m. and 413 miles. Here’s the Google location:

I am here: 38 19.156 N 114 36.462 W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:38.31928,-114.60771

Alt 6176

It is raining, not a thunder shower this is a real wetting the earth rain. We had rain off and on starting at Ely and had to slow down to 50 mph a couple of times.  If it stops raining I will take a campsite picture.

Campsite picture from inside out,

Tomorrow starts the hard part of vacation, we will get to Zion Natl Park and the big decision of the day well be how many strawberry daiquiris to have and how many will be two shots of rum vs. one. I’ll have to work my way through it. Morning walks with Hank and afternoons in the shade.

Update Monday morning, here are a couple of campsite pictures from this morning, sunny.

12:30 morning update did not update, here are the pictures: