We are leaving Cactus Pete’s RV park and it is just above freezing. We scraped the windshield as it was covered in light frost.
My tummy is a bit upset this morning as we we both ate at the buffet last night and I must say my stomach doesn’t like all that much food anymore. But….I didn’t have to cook!
Heading out of Jack Pot.
More open highway ahead.
The meadows are full of cows.
There is lots of hay for the long winter ahead.
More and more cattle.
Huge piles of salt and sand ready for the icy roads of winter.
Lots of people don’t like the starkness of the Great Basin highway but we find it all very beautiful.
Lots of pronghorn antelope along the way. Huge fences to keep them off the highway ….and lots of them dead at the edge of road along the way.
This is an overpass built for the deer to cross the highway on their usual migration path. Looks expensive.
Junipers are starting to show up at the edge of the road because we’re getting higher.
Coming into Wells, Nevada where we’ll make a fuel stop. Always windy here.
Junipers. I kind of think they look like an African American’s beard! No disrespect intended.
The Ruby Mountains.
Even some sheep out this way.
And ….lots more hay.
93 right to Ely or 93 left to West Wendover.
Next up ….McGill.
Getting higher.
Yes, the street is hugely slanted from one side to the other.
Downtown McGill. I wonder if the water ends up in the buildings on the right when it rains!
Coming into Ely, Nevada. We like to stay here when we can. You may remember my blog about riding the train. It is now about 16C. Sweet!
Fuel stop.
This is where we stopped last spring to put some “truck” not trailer tires on the rig after a trailer tire separation coming out of Laughlin.
Downtown Ely. Turn left to head south.
And now….turn right.
Big horn sheep statue just before our right turn.
We stopped at the top of the hill at a truck pull off for lunch.
Looking down the valley back at Ely.
Juniper bushes right next to where we ate….all full of berries.
Just us…having lunch.
Heading south toward the summit before you head down the long hill and travel south from Ely.
I wonder who lives in there?
We are in the Humboldt National Forest.
Some snow on the hill but now much anywhere else. We postponed our trip by a day because of a weather advisory for snow. Doesn’t look like much happened.
Murray Summit 7316 ft.
And down we go.
Turn left for Lund, Ash Springs, Alamo….etc.
Coming into Lund. It’s down hill all the way.
Lots of farm machinery for sale here.
Back on the open highway. Straight as an arrow so easy driving. We haven’t had too much wind today. Just bits of it here and there.
We always wonder what makes these little mounds of sand. Little clearings made by …..who? Looks like a varmint village.
Coming into the White River Narrows Archeological area. http://www.nevadarockart.info/white_river_narrows.html
Every time we go through this area I think….you’ve already taken lots of pictures here ….but….
it is so spectacular I always take more.
Look at those layers of rock.
Looks like some ancient castle.
Leaving the canyon.
Coming into Hiko. This vehicle from Alberta just passed us after being stopped for speeding. A woman driving who then slowed down so much she was holding up traffic while she wandered back and forth all over the road.
We turn right.
It has greened up and the temperature is now an amazing 24C. Just lovely.
We usually stay in Ash Springs at the little RV park there but….friends Marilyn and Dennis from Alberta stay here so we thought we’d give it a try.
A nice spot. Used to be the Alamo RV park but it’s now the Pickett’s RV park. A little more money than Ash Springs but they have internet here and also cable TV and showers and laundry.
Not many people here yet.
If you peek through the trees you can see the highway with the traffic whizzing by.
We’ve had dinner and will have an early night before we head out for Laughlin, Nevada via Overton and the Valley of Fire.
I would have expected it to be colder there. I don't think we have ever stayed at Cactus Pete's when there was not frost.
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