Bubs no longer on the run....

We and our dogs have made it HOME!!!!

26 nights on the run...

16 stops...

8 states...

RV: $5K
Gas for trip: $2K
Fun on the run...PRICELESS!

Turtle Beach Fish Camp

This was our Last Stop before home.

On the San Joachim (sp?) river - it was not much of a fish camp - let me just say I wouldn't eat the fish out of that river!

It was a nice enough park and a great way to break up the trip home.

We left the camp in the morning and five hours later: WE WERE HOME!

Snow Flower - CALIFORNIA

Our first stop back in the foreign country of California (as we were often reminded on our trip) was about an hour south of Reno, up the the mountians (alt 8000+) in the "Tahoe area."

Here is a giant sequioa which we camped near.

That's a lotta fire wood - but it was too dry - no campfires!

Kimberly's Mon and dad met us at the camp. It was great to be back in "our country."

Crossing the Great Salt Desert!

Hey am I spelling desert right?

This is the Bonneville Salt Flats and - I just set the land speed record...

In a land ship... Anyone have any french fries and ketchup????????

I have to admit - walking on the salt looked so much like ice I thought I would fall through. But I would float really good in that salty of water, right?

PS, it was a hundred million degrees hot so it wasn't ice but my mind is twisted I guess.

430 miles - 8 hours - three states on a Sunday

This is the view looking west from our camp site.

We left Evanston WY and blew through Utah and crossed half of Nevada, landing here at Winnemucca. Its a high desert.

We are about 31/2 hours from our next stop which is in CALIFORNIA!

Because of the time change (from mountian to pacific) we got a free hour to stop at a casino and have a brunch buffet in West Wendover. (Wendover is in Utah but West Wedndover is in Nevada! Yeah, casinos means buffets...

Evanston, the last stop in Wyoming

We stopped for one night just outside of Utah or just inside Wyoming (a state we spent a great deal of time driving through).

We were treated to a free concert of Sara Evans and Danny Gokely (of American Idol, from Milwaukee, yeah hey der). They were at the county fair/outdoor rodeo set up for a concert and the RV park was two blocks away so when the wind blew right - it was heaven.

Then the lighting postponed the show and cut Danny's show short.

Before that, we even had time to explore historic Evanston. Everything in Wyoming is historic...

Fort Bridger (the original) at Ft. Bridger WY

So a mountian man named Jim Bridger first built this stockaded fort and then the US took it and built a new one, then the Mormons occupied it, and then the US took it over and built more stuff on it.

This was the intersection of the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails.

It was an old fort and then a new fort (almost as old) and then the US army gave it up early in the 1900's.

This is a picture looking into the open gates of the original wooden fort

Granger Stage Coach Station

So I 80 is all part of the California and Mormon Trails out west and these ruins are the garden spot of Granger, WY.

We had to take a gravel road - a first for the land ship!

a drainage pool in gasland

This shot is out of the window as we are on the run, but it is clearly a water pool associated with gas production. Full of heval metals and other toxins they are not required to mediate.

We need natual gas - sure we add the smell, but its natural...

Watch Gasland and it'll change your mind about how clean gas is.

Have you seen "Gasland"?

There is a documentary just out called "Gasland" about the run away and toxic production of natural gas across America.

This is from the road and they are the tell tale signs of gas production.

Like gnus dotting the Masai Mara - there are these facitlites all over Wyoming. In state land, BLM land, everywhere there are few people.

Hey its a "tiny footprint." But it fouls the water, air, land, people's lives...

Greatest Golf Game of My LIFE (so far)

So at Rawlins, I was able to get in a game of golf before sunset.

I pared (got par) on the first five holes - never done that in my life and then - I'm not lying - I birdied the sixth and then eighth. I blew a couple of shots out of bounds but I took a few mulligans and by 11 I was 2 under par. By 16 I was 1 under par and I pared the 17th hole.

I stopped there, of course, because in miniture golf the 18th hole takes your ball and I was playing with my own ball and club. And it was getting dark, so we'll call it 1 under par.

The Greatest game of my Life...

Thoen stone in Deadwood

This stone is carved (scratched) on both sides with the story of and dieing words of Ezera Kind. His party filled their ponies with gold and were then all killed by Indians. He lists their names and says he is out of water and he knows he's out of time.

I first saw it in Spearfish 30 years ago where it was displayed outside across from where it was found by a guy name Thoen.

For whatever reason, this really moved me emotionally when I first saw it. This was one of the things I wanted to see.

Jerry and I were both extras in what was then Spearfish's mega outdoor passion play starring a German guy named Joseph Meyer.

We are everywhere, you know...