Back to the Road for a Quickie

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Bedrock Bunch is happy to once again hit the road. It has been a few months, and we need to get started again!

The cavemobiles were jacked up and weaseled into place on Sunday, and then the loading began. The Flintstones have an EZ Load system that works great. Just take the porch rail off and back up to the porch so it is an easy step in and out. It saves lots of going up and down!. It is amazing how many trips in and out it takes to get us ready to go. Then because it has been a while, we aren’t sure what major thing we forgot, even though we have a checklist!

The Flintstones still had a couple of appointments, but we were able to hop aboard the cavemobiles and pull out at our planned time today.  A little later we stopped in Twin for lunch at Taco Bell, and still managed 400 miles today, stopping for overnight in Ely, Nevada.  Here are a few pictures of the amazing (not so much!) scenery, with mile after mile after mile of the same.  We didn’t do anything exciting, just drove and drove, seeing more of the same.  Plus, we were driving all day into a strong headwind, so the fuel mileage really dropped.

We did see several pieces of a windmill being trucked down the road. Those things are huge. We were stuck behind one for quite a ways down a two lane road, and when we finally got to go around it, I forgot to take a picture. The pictures are of the lower pieces, and the one I forgot was an upper piece, but still not the top!

We saw lots and lots of RVs of all kinds heading North. It must be the end of spring break, and the Canadians seemed to be flocking back home in droves.  Lots more RV traffic than we would have expected this time of year.

We are stopped at the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum for the evening. We discovered they are not open on Tuesday this time of year, and will have to wait until morning to find out if they are open at all in March. We had stopped here last October, and really enjoyed looking around. We have enjoyed a chicken and salad supper, and are ready to kick back for a while. Tomorrow will be another long driving day, but we are hoping to also stop and get some park stamps before the day is out.

We don’t know how this map will work for you, but we wanted to try to show you the general area of where we traveled today. I’m playing with a new way to put them in, and don’t know if you can move it around or not. Not all of the route shows on what I can see now.

 

That’s it for tonight. Have a good one.