Tuesday April 8th, 2008

Last night I put away every thing outside except the water, sewer and electrical hookup, so that all I had to do this morning, was take care of those item out side. I also got the Suzuki hooked up and connected.

We were up before 5:30 AM, and while I finished up outside, Barb worked on getting the slides and inside things taken care of. When you start up the diesel at 6 AM, you want to be ready to move, so that the neighbors don't start yelling at you for having awakened them. They probably did, but by then we were on our way. Next stop was across the freeway at the Flying J to top off the fuel tank. Sixty two gallons and 240 dollars later we were on our way. That is the amount of fuel that we used driving from Bakersfield to Ehrenberg.

We had scoped out a restaurant earlier in Blythe, that opened at 6 AM, and had good parking for the Coach. We stopped there for breakfast and were then on our way to Pahrump, Nevada by 7 AM. It was a pretty uneventful drive except for the wild drivers in Vegas that like to cut in front of you because you are not accelerating fast enough. We passed one big unusual looking place just south of Boulder City that Barb decided looked like a Solar farm. We googled it when we got in and sure enough it was. We also captured a couple of images of the new breed of Palm Trees, which we like to call the Cell Palm. In this time of high energy costs there seem to be a lot more signs and signals being driven by the sun and solar panels.

Barb snapped quite a few pictures, trying to show all the different colors of flowers along the road. A few came out good and I posted them in today's slide show. Pahrump is about 50 miles NW of Las Vegas, and you have to pass over one of the mountain ranges to get there. We arrived just a little after noon, got checked in, parked and set up. I was a little disturbed to see though that the hot tub had an "out of order" sing on it. The temperature was a good 15 degrees cooler that we have been having in Ehrenberg. Barb actually closed the window while we were driving.

Red Lion Man (& Lady)

See today's slide show.