Driving and more driving...

September 15 – This morning did not start our day off well!  We were up earlier than normal to get on the road and all was going well until we retracted the leveling legs.  They went up but the control panel insisted they were down.  I tried several times to retract and got the same response.  We had no choice but to go ahead and leave as planned.  The panel stopped chirping after a couple of minutes and continued to do this EVERY time we turned the engine off and restarted.

We drove to the back of the fairgrounds where a public dump station is and we were the only ones there, so that went fast and well! 

Then we stopped at the Truck stop beside the interstate.  We fueled up and filled our DEF can.  Bill checked the tires and discovered his pressure gauge would not work on the RV tires so a truck driver loaned him his.  Our passenger rear inside tire was WAY low, so he aired it up along with some in each of the others and finally at 9:45 we were on our way.

Long bur NOT winding road

We drove about 330 miles today!  We took 93 from Twin Falls down into Nevada and ended up in Baker, NV for the night.  There were very few towns along the route and I was a little concerned that we’d be in the middle of no where with no cell service and something would break down.  I was surprised at how much traffic there was! 

Once we went through Jackpot, NV (where there are

Farm house along the way

4-5 casinos and not much else), there was pretty much nothing but fenced in fields with a few cows here and there, farm houses dotted along and miles and miles of flat landscape.

Baker is very close to the Visitor Center for Great Basin National Park.  We stayed at this little slightly Deliverance RV park when we went to Great Basin but this time we were just pulling in for the night.  We

Now this was a cook sighting

got in about 4, which gave us a little down time.  The site was not very level but we decided not to challenge the leveling legs and just spend the night a little ca-ca!

I made corn on the cob, hot links and heated up leftover green beans.  We finished off one of our half gallons of huckleberry ice cream.  I didn’t feel like getting out the computer so I crocheted and read in my down time.

I did do 2 loads of laundry and changed the bed sheets.

We watched a couple of shows on TV and called it a night.