November 8-10, 2026 Hawthorne to Tonopah, Nevada to Shoshone, California

 High of 69 and sunny.

We filled up in Winnemucca. Maverick had diesel at $6.15. It was higher at the other stations in town. Walker Lake, north of Hawthorne, NV.

Fall color and a touch of snow near Walker Lake.We are parked at Whiskey Flats RV park in Hawthorne, Nevada. Rv parks, and towns, are few and far between in Nevada. 

Hawthorne, Nevada has the world's largest ammo depot, native american metal artwork along  I-80, fall colors and a few wildflowers are still blooming. Sunset in the RV park.

Green Link  West Transmission Project, substation, will serve as a collector hub  for large scale solar, supporting industrial and data center power loads.  Welcome to Tonopah! It is an old mining town.

We are staying at the Love's RV stop, which is at a Love's truck stop. A well lighted parking lot, right off the highway. Our first adventure at a truck stop. The price of gold is so high now that they reopened many of the gold mines, so the RV parks are full of the mine workers. Across the highway is the cemetary. The monument in the foreground is the John Kirchen Memorial, the site of the final silver discovery by John Kirchen the manager of the mining company. His ashes are spread here. 

I walked over to tour the cememary. Here are a few of the graves. Nice late afternoon light on the peaks across the highway, with the cemetary in front of it. 

As an added bonus to our truck stop campsite,  across the street there is construction, looks like they will be drilling all night. Sunset was lovely.

The X rated part of the sunset. Our view in front of our site of the truckstop, with a nice sunset. 

We had a nice dinner at the Tonopah Brewery. John with his Gear Jammer a red IPA. This coach belongs to Chuck. He stopped and introduced himself. He has the same year, make and model coach that we do. Even the same length. You don't see many of them on the road anymore. The company closed 16 years ago.

We fueled up here at $6.19 a gallon. We had a new fan  for the engine installed at Oregon Motor coach and now we get much better gas mileage. We got 9 miles to the gallon on this fillup , we used to get closer to 5. Death Valley Nuts and Candy store. We got fuel here, but passed on the candy. Eat it today, wear it tomorrow!

We made it, we are at my sister's house in Shoshone. She put in an RV plug and pad for us, among her palm trees. We are done driving for sometime now.  Great to see  her.  It was 81 degrees when we arrived!

Last light on the Resting Spring range. John and I took a hike on some of the birding trails around Shoshone this afternoon.