Rex and Nancy's Travels - "ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST" - JRR Tolkein

We left Mt. Pleasant Thursday morning and headed to Cortez, CO.  We stopped at a viewpoint along I70 about 50 miles west of Greenriver, UT.  We thought this rock formation looked like a lion lying at the base of the bluff. We are staying at the Sundance RV Park in Cortez, CO.   This is a very nice park in town just across the street from a beautiful city park.  Our site is really big, shady and has a nice grassy area. We are surprised that even though we are on Main Street in the middle of town this is a very quiet RV park.  We have taken the dogs on long walks around the large park complex across the street.  The park has soccer fields, baseball fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, Frisbee gold course, swimming pool, recreation center, two ponds and lots of grass.  We spent Thursday afternoon and Friday relaxing and getting some chores done.  Saturday morning we went to the Farmer’s Market and bought some home grown tomatoes an...

Monday morning, August 8 th , we headed east across Nevada on Highway 50.   The 287-mile stretch of this highway from Fernley to Ely was dubbed “the loneliest road in America” by Life magazine in July 1986.    It really is a lonely and desolate stretch of road and follows the Pony Express route across Nevada. Nevada is the most mountainous state in the Nation with 314 individual ranges and hills and we drove over a lot of them today.   We drove from Carson City to Ely in about 6 hours – the longest we have driven in one day all summer.   We are staying at the KOA in Ely, a very nice RV park but also the most expensive we have stayed at in a long time. We visited the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum in Ely.   This is a very nice restored rail yard with 66 original buildings and structures, 4 steam engines and about 6 diesel engines, and over 70 pieces of rolling stock. One of the volunteers gave us a nice tour of the engine house and shop. We enjoy...

Saturday morning, July 2nd, we left Silverton and drove to the Columbia River Gorge.    The Gorge is beautiful and we got our first sighting of Mt. Hood on the way.   We drove through beautiful farm country with lots of fruit orchards, vineyards and vegetable fields.    We are staying at the Bridge RV Park in White Salmon, WA just across the river from Hood River, OR.   It is a really nice small RV park with grassy sites and lots of shade trees.   One thing we really like is that there is an Osprey nest in the trees behind the park. We enjoy hearing them calling and watching them fly around. When we got here we found that the bridge to Hood River is a toll bridge and costs seventy-five cents each time you cross.   We know we will be crossing the river many times and the nearest bridge without a toll is about 25 miles away.   We just are not used to toll bridges and roads. We were giving Cody 2 prednisone pills a day fo...