October 4-5, 2016 Wellington, Utah to Orovada, Nevada

We ended up driving 300 miles today. Way more than we usually drive. We did not want to go to the big city. Provo was not very far and there really was nothing west of Salt Lake City, just salt flats, no towns or RV parks till we got to Nevada. So we just drove.

Leaving Price, Utah in this lovely canyon. Provo,Utah with a nice back drop.

Salt Lake City, nice mountains to the east that are not in the photo. The Great Salt Lake and a pile of salt at a plant by the evaporator ponds.

We saw this 5th wheel dragging it’s sewer hose. I hope they don’t need it tonight, I don’t think it will be intact when they get there. This scuplture was in the middle of the salt flats. It’s title is the Tree of Utah. The artist created it after he had a vision of a tree while driving across the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Bonneville Salt Flats. Most of the salt flats were flooded from the recent rain. There is some BLM dispersed camping in this area, but who wants to drove on this, we would sink up to our windows. So we kept driving.

Wendover, Ut/ West Wendover, Nevada. The state line is marked on the street. Looking east (lower left) into Utah, and right into Nevada. We didn’t want to stay at a Casino, so we kept driving. The Balanced Rock in Price, Utah. I loved the vintage signs in Wendover. Wendover Will welcoming you to Wendover, Red Garter and Rainbow Casino.

We are now parked at the Welcome Center RV park outside of Wells, Nevada. Nice shady, quiet (except for the highway noise), cheap RV park. Nice to not be driving.

Across the road from the RV park at sunset. Another long 200 mile day. There really is not much in this part of the country. The view driving west on I-80 in northern Nevada.

There were all kinds of interesting sites. Deeth Starr Valley, Pumpernickel Valley, The BM for Battle Mountain above town and Winnemucca, the Gateway to the Pacific Northwest and the Black Rock Desert.  Street scene in Winnemucca.

Melarkey Street in Winnemucca, The Vapor Trailer, and who wouldn’t want to eat at the Wonderful house, or the Pig?? This old gas pump in Orovada was retried in 1993, and the price of a gallon of ethyl was 74 cents a gallon, a bunny in the RV park and cool wheat.

Poor John had quite a day. First as we were getting ready to leave I remembered that the door on the car was not latched the day before and the battery was dead-so it had to be charged up,then the awning had not rolled up right , so he had to fix that before we left. Then in Orovada the car was dead again, it is charging here. There is some problem with the drain pipe  on the washer and the gray tank odor filled the bus, so he had to try to access it and fix it. What a man.

The bus at the Key Sawtooth RV park in Orovada, Nevada.  The view across the street from the RV park. Lovely place.

Wheat in the afternoon light. This mural on a wall in Winnemucca had a stage coach with an appropriately placed door, and darn, I can’t hang my dead game or put any hides, or entrails in the dumpster according to the rules of the park, and put the Win in Winnemucca!

The wheat in the sunset.