We left Twin Falls before noon on Wednesday and headed south on the Great Basin Highway (93). It's good road, but one of those you wish you had auto-pilot on your vehicle. I should have taken a picture in the middle, but didn't. This one is towards the end of the basin...
Our plan was to stay in a couple state parks in Nevada. But a word from the 'wiser', they're not like Oregon's. Oh, and it does pay to do a little research. We did not... Our stop for the night was at Cave Lake State Park. It turned out to be a very small campground...no hookups...no pavement...and the showers were supposed to be remodeled in 2012. Did you notice, I said 'supposed'. As the temp dropped into the 40's no way was I going to shower. I'm beginning to stink...hee-hee. We managed to squeeze both the RV and PU into a space and settled down to dinner and cribbage. But the cool thing was to wake in the morning to this...
and 33 degrees.
As we headed east of Ely we were passed by a snowplow. Now that gave us some second thoughts! But no problem...
Thursday night was supposed to be in Cathedral Gorge State Park, but we did our research first and found they could only handle up to 26' vehicles. There was a great viewpoint just above the park. We were going to hike a trail or two, but after lunch the storm caught-up with us...
Ever heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre? I hadn't...
A dreadful piece of Mormon history, I'll bet they'd like us not to know about now. This was ordered my the church leaders...carried out by members, Indians of the area and a U.S. militia composed of Mormon men. There was no apparent reason!
Then between 'George the GPS' and Norman, we wandered the streets of St. George, UT until we were finally at a deadend and had to disconnect to get around...LOL.
We're now parked in Hurricane, where laundry, unloading and washing the pickup and touring the National Parks near here will take place.
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