Today we travel north through the state of Nevada. We start our trip on the loneliest highway in the US, highway 50. It is definitely desolate along the roads in Nevada. We stop for lunch in Wells and before we left town it starts to snow. The wind in blowing hard and the snow is going sideways. We decided to try and get further today so we are spending the night in Jackpot NV, right on the border of Idaho. Our RV park in right next to the casino. We go to the casino for dinner and finally put some money into the slots. We both put in $5 and both lost $5 pretty fast. That night it snowed again hard and the ground was white.
April 14
This morning the sky is blue but it is cold outside. The road is dry and there is still snow on the grass. We head north into Idaho and stop in the town or Hagerman at the visitors center for the Hagerman Fossil Beds Nat. Monument. The fossil site out of town is closed because of a fire. We saw a movie about the area and there were lots of fossils on display. There is a life size model of the Hagerman Horse. Ate lunch at a restaurant before moving on. Got to my sisters house in the afternoon. We had stopped here on the start of our trip durning Labor Day weekend.
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| Hagerman Horse |
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| Hagerman Horse skull |
April 15
Going shopping with my sister today. Dick is helping my brother-in-law, Dick around the winery today while we shop. We had fun shopping and got some good bargains.
April 16
Shirley and I go shopping again today. It is Dicks birthday today and he is helping around the winery again today. The boys are putting the foil and labeling the wine from this last harvest. Shirley and I hit some good sales and get good bargains again today. Shirley cooks Dick a delicious steak dinner with birthday cake for desert for his birthday.
April 17
Stayed around the house today. In the afternoon a group of people came for a wine taste and Dick and I help. We are coming back to Parma Ridge May 1st to help out with their open house at the winery.
April 18
Rain this morning as we are leaving for home. This will be our last day of travel for this trip. The weather clears for awhile but we get into clouds with rain and snow most of the way home. We get into Colfax around 2:30 and as soon as we enter town it starts to snow. Could hardly see the road because it was snowing with big flakes and coming down really hard. We finally get parked and go home to wait for a city worker to come and turn on our water. We even get our TV cable hooked up again today. It is good to be home and the house survived the terrible winter they had here in Colfax.
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| Coming home to a snow storm |
We had a wonderful trip and totally enjoyed all the places we visited. People ask us what place was our favorite but that is a hard question. Each place is unique and we have many favorites and would like to return to revisit some of them in the future. On the road for 229 days and traveled 14,643 miles in the motor home. Don't have the exact mileage for the Jeep but it is somewhere around 9,000 miles. We were in 38 states and 5 Canadian Provinces. We have now been in every state except Hawaii and we are planing on going there in 2012. We learned on thing, this country is large, too large to see everything in only one trip or even in a lifetime. We met some wonderful people along the way and collected lots of name cards so we can keep in touch. We will continue to travel in the winters, away from the cold and snow, for as long as we can. We have the travel bug and want to see more of this country. This is the last blog for now and will start a new blog when we take off the the fall. Definitely Happy Travels, Barb
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