11th June...Border Nevada to Heber City, Utah....Quite a diverse drive...

Well they say it's bigger if from Texas !!!
This big rig was parked at the front of our RV Park & Motel near Baker, NV...

We leave Nevada as we head out this morning on US50/6 East to Heber City, Utah....
Our home for the past two nights has been in the RV park behind this motel...yes folks we are in the boonies but love it...

And as we hit the road we immediately loose an hour as now on Mountain Time Zone....

The first 30 miles or so is across the "basin" to the Confusion Mountain Range and a climb up from 5000ft to 6,200ft elevation...

Curvy scenery in the mountains before descending to traverse 113 miles across the plains...

We are still fascinated by the sheer distances and that it is flat at 5,000ft elevation...we have passed no communities or farms so far today....

This and previous photo are of a huge salt flat....
It was very difficult to photograph as no pull out areas that could accommodate our size here although there have been many along the route so far....

And a few miles later agriculture ...... 

A few miles further still and industry...diversity in all forms today....

We had stopped in the small town of Delta to check whether this road SR132 would be ok for towing as a shorter route than following the US6 and yes perfect....it is one of the main routes for the bulk carriers to the refinery....

The town of Nephi prior to joining the I-15 North to Provos, home of the Brigham Young University and a large city with road works all through the main "drag" !!!

Once clear of the city we are on the scenic US189 East and through part of the Wasatch Mountain Range...it's a good 4 lane highway with many pullouts to view the waterfalls and scenery and an excellent place to stop for lunch sandwich....

The Bridal Veil Falls at one of the many recreational state parks along this route...with the Provos river running alongside of the highway it's a great place for fishing and kayaking.....

One of the many pretty reservoirs in this area....

And Camp Harris at our home for the next 3 nights..
Mountain Valley RV Resort, Heber City...
You can imagine our surprise when we pulled in to find after 6 years of travelling in our Cedar Creek and only ever seeing the odd one here and there to find at least 30 of them here of various editions and types !!!!
It is the Cedar Creek Owners Annual Rally and lots of, as ever with this lifestyle, very friendly folk who were very keen to get us to join to make then truly international (they have one Canadian)....
Apologies from Mrs Blogger for delay in posting but have been having too much fun and not enough time to blog !!!!
For now until the next post, it's bye bye...
From the Very Happy Campers...

Great Basin National Park...Sunday 10th June....

The strong gusty winds have died down this morning as we head out just 6 miles to The Great Basin National Park visitor centre....

Although called The Great Basin it is not one but many basins separated by mountain ranges alternating in seemingly endless geographic rhythm !!
The basins range from California's Sierra Nevada to Utah's Wasatch Mountains...
There are caves and many hiking trails but we do the 12 mile scenic drive to the Wheeler Peak Summit Overlook...we have an elevation change of 5,000ft from 5,000ft at Baker to 10,000ft at the summit overlook...
Wheelers Peak is 13,063ft and we met a lovely fit young man from Connecticut who had hiked from the parking lot to the top and back down....

The streams and creeks are running fairly fast with the snow melt...

Pretty "spring" flowers seen at one of the many viewpoints on route to the summit overlook...

We had planned the Bristlecone Grove hike but opt for the shorter trail, 3 mile round hike to Teresa Lake as both feeling the effects of the altitude...
Still plenty of snow about.....

We do find a few Bristlecone pine trees on route, they live 2,000 to 3,000 years at the higher elevation (making them much older than the giant Sequoia) but the trees on the lower slopes like this one live "only" for 300 to 400 years !!!

Our destination and the beautiful and peaceful Teresa Lake....

Well worth the hike....

Yorkieman enjoying the peace and tranquility....
Tomorrow we will head out east to Heber City....
Until the next post...
The Peaceful Campers....

5th to 9th June 2018 .....Back In Las Vegas.....

Hello again blog watchers.....Yorkieman and I have arrived back in Las Vegas to collect our home from home from storage and once more hit the road for another US road trip....

Most of you will know this will be a bitter sweet road trip as we are planning to sell our US home when we get back east....

The main blog photo is the first "tow" from the lot at Lakeside RV Sales in Anderson South Carolina and the beginning of our 6 years of adventures...

This and next pic is the stunning landscape of Southern Utah taken from our Virgin Atlantic 747....

I watched The Greatest Showman for the second time and think I enjoyed it even more, fabulous film also Finding Your Feet a funny/sad film for our age group !!!

Hitchin' Post RV Park, North Las Vegas, it is 102F or 39C and it has been a challenge getting the fridge cool enough to stock up on supplies, thank goodness for a/c....it is at times like this that we have so much admiration for the stoic early settlers....
As usual when we stay here we are fascinated by the aerial activity from Nellis Air Force Base, this evening we saw two "Osprey" planes going into land....
We have supplies, the rig and truck are washed and waxed and we are ready to head out north to Baker, NV...

Saturday 9th June...
Back on the road again....cue song courtesy of Willie Nelson...
Our route today is the US93 north......just outside of Vegas and no it's not a lake but a solar farm....

And the open road, country music on the radio and we are happy...
We pass through small communities and farms and a very pretty National Wildlife Area but not able to get a good pic...
We pass signs for Major Deer Crossing, Open Range Grazing, & Falling Rocks !! 

Our road snaking over the Delemar Mountain range....road elevation 6,297ft....driving along in our nice clean truck and trailer and we hit a swarm of bugs...it's happened before but really is quite a "shock" as sounds like gravel being thrown at the windshield...
At the town of Caliente, a very neat small town, there's a bit of excitement as a huge gathering for a "road" race of customised ATVs....
The next and last 120 miles of todays journey are across the fertile Lake Valley (elevation of 6,140ft)....

Yes snow on the mountains just a few miles from our home for the next 2 nights at Border RV Park near Baker, Nevada....called Border RV as it is literally on the border of Nevada and Utah....
It's now a pleasant 84F/29C but the wind is really strong and stays that way for most of the night....no cook out tonight, thank goodness for our George Foreman !!!
Good to back on the road...
Until the next post...cheers from
Yorkieman and Mrs Blogger....