Emerald Cove - Nov 2008

View from the pontoon on the Colorado River

Supper at the Roadrunner - Beef Tacos

Returning to park we see these Burros

Nov 2, 2008

Rough life we have. We left Kamloops on Oct 31st headed for this location. We left around 3:30 pm and fueled up in Princeton, BC . A quick stop at the Canada/US border and we are on our way. We stop at a WalMart in Omak WA and spent our first night there. The next day is overcast with rain, that is intermittent. We drove to Stanfield Oregon and fueled up there. We proceeded on and stopped for our third fuel stop in Wells, NV. We finally stopped as we were tired and stayed in a gravel pit along with several truckers and other RVers at the intersection of Hwy 93 and Alt Hwy 93. That night it poured rain and was very windy. In the morning the wind had subsided but the rain did not. The rain was very hard at times and other times it was light. We proceeded on and we ran through snow going through Ely, NV at the 6500 ft level. Driving through Humbolt National Forest we experienced snow, sleet, slush, lightning, thunder, hail and rain and more rain. Several vehicles were off the road due to the snow & slush on the road through the National Park. We slowed down to about 25 mph during this section, and at one point pulled over to let the traffic built up behind us pass. They were in a greater hurry than we were! We were determined to get to Emerald Cove and we pulled into the park around 7 pm. Upon our arrival, Marcel & Doris(from Minnesota), Don & Pat(from Saskatchewan) have the lights on and we are greeted enthusiastically. We spend a couple hours catching up on news and a couple of drinks. Glad to be here!!!!!

Nov 3, 2008

Today is a cleanup day. Wash the car....... absolutely filthy ......... You couldn't even see out of the windshield it was that dirty. Marge & I tackled this job with her doing more than I. I concentrated on getting out the internet, wash the front of the motorhome, put the covers on the windows etc. This afternoon we pile onto the pontoon and head for the Roadrunner Cafe. They are serving beef taco's for a special. 6 for $5.00, can't beat that deal. The pics above are of our trip to the cafe and on the way back we see burros that have come to the river for a drink.

We definitely will have more fun tomorrow.

Just a sidenote. Marge did a calculation of the fuel prices paid on our way down this trip and one that was done 2 years ago. Conclusion.... we spent $40.00 more this trip..... who would of thunk it