September 12-13, 2019 Delta, Utah to Great Basin National Park, Nevada

We are going a lot farther than we normally do since we are on our way to my brother-in-law's memorial service Sept 22. It has cool off into the low 80's high 70's.

We drove from Green River, Ut to Delta Utah today. 178 miles, 4 hours. Long day. We went through the San Rafael Swell, through lots of beautiful Red Rock country, over mountain ranges , back into basins. Not many towns, lots of wide open space. Here around Delta are vast fields of deep golden grasses. A canyon wall going through the San Rafael Swell.  The swell is a huge uplift of red rocks with lots of cool rock formations and slot canyons. We have stayed and explored in the swell a couple times before. 

The view out over Eagle Canyon. It was named that because it is so deep they say eagles can't fly out. It is 300 feet deep.  Beautiful historic downtown Salina, Utah. we stayed here on another trip. We bypassed it today.

A cool looking historic house in Scipio, Ut. We are camped at the Antelope Valley RV park. Nice little park, trees and grass between hay fields and the highway.  Delta has 3, 436 people. It is a small town, but seems to be the main commercial town in the area. It has a car dealer ship, grocery store and many more stores a town this size wouldn't have. It also has the only rv park in the area. 

John viewing sunset from the hay field. The almost full moon rising the other direction.

I finished this basket  on the way to Green River. It has a center of blue magnetite with red coral, and red, white, blue and silver seed beads. It is stitched with purple, blue and red flat polyester cord. It is 7 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches. I started this new one today. The center is a piece of blue dichroic glass my friend Laurie fused. I used needles that I dyed kelly green and royal blue. In the middle are some natural needles. It is stitched with light green, light blue and sea green polyester cord. It is close to being done. So far it is 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches. I get  a lot done on the baskets when we are doing long drives.

A katydid sunning by the coach wheel, purple flower, and climbing lanes- we think the slowest right lane. We took a walk through Delta after dinner tonight. Topaz was a Japanese internment camp right outside Delta. The sign does not mince words, tells how horrible it was. There is a museum in Delta about it. Welcome to Delta in the city park. Right below that is a sign for the Cosmic Ray Center. There is a 1/4 mile square of sensors in the Black Rock Desert outside town. Not the same Black rock desert that has Burning Man in Nevada. And three telescopes. They are studying invisible ultra violet rays that come from space and land on earth.

Approaching Great Basin National Park. It starts in the desert at around  5,000 feet and goes to the top of Mt Wheeler at 13,006 feet. 

We are camped at Shady Elms Bar, Motel and Campground in Baker, Nevada. We have a corner spot next to a vintage Winnebago 5th wheel which is in storage, so no neighbors so far. This is seated next to the road on the way up Great Basin National Park. 

Sunset tonight from our drive up to the mountain for an evening hike. 

A real blurry photo of the full moon over Lake Stella on our ranger led full moon hike tonight. Full harvest moon on Friday the 13th. Beautiful hike. Welcome to Nevada and Nevada Highway 50- America's Loneliest road. It must get hot here, these are charts to tell when you  have heat exhaustion or stroke and how to tell if your dog is overheated.