Hey Marcia, I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore…or in the Alabama Hills either!
On the move by 1:00 pm Thursday. I had left Marcia alone in the motorhome as I went to checkout the dump station at Tuttle Creek Campground, and then to get gas in Lone Pine in anticipation of heading up Whitney Portal Road all the way to the campground and the trailhead for Mt. Whitney. I got back, and Marcia said, “I can’t close my mouth all the way…” For months she has been fighting a Wisdom Tooth which seemed to be ‘loose’, and frankly we should have had it looked at in Florida before we left, but she had just dropped her dentist of 20 years and did not want to find another one. So on the phone I got to call local dentist, to finally find one in Carson City who could see us Saturday. So just before 1 pm, we left Lone Pine, left the Alabama Hills, and headed north. The picture above is a vista point just outside of Baker California, the north end of Owens Valley.
The views along the 230 miles, which took us six hours to complete, were just gorgeous. As we got closer to Carson City, we did hit some rain, and some 45 degree weather…but then we got over that pass and down to Carson City were temps were mild, a little rain, and a busy, busy city. It was pulling into the RV Park Thursday that Marcia got the double rainbow in the first picture.
For the first night we stayed at Silver City RV Park, after reading about others who had stayed there. Unfortunately, they could only handle us for Thursday night, and they also increased their price from $35 per night to $50 per night due to new management…and no longer a Good Sam park, yet they have a bunch of Good Sam stuff still on their windows, on the map they hand out, etc. I would have made a fuss…but we are no longer Good Sam members either, just not worth the price as far as we are concern….especially since many Good Sam parks accept AAA membership too, which we have on the car. We crammed into a site, the sewer was so far back that even with three sewer lines we could not connect (because we did not disconnect the car), and all I did was hook up the water. “IF” you want to use their cable, you have put $75 down for a cable box…we just did over-the-air TV. The dogs are not allowed on grass, and the rocks seemed to hurt both of their sets of paws….and the off leash dog area is about half the size of our motorhome and twice our width…so they are better just being off leash inside the motorhome which has no rocks. And the check in process took so very long, for no reason other than incompetence. Well, enough of that.
Today we moved over to Comstock Country RV Park, which just so happens to be less than 1/2 mile from the Dentist Marcia sees tomorrow. Here there is shade, room between sites, a nice, efficient staff, and a price of $42 per night including tax, and it is very quiet. Only had about 8 spots open for today, and we are in for two nights, and it is close to so many things…including a car wash for our poor HHR which needed to be cleaned so badly. Also, “WE” are going to take showers our self…only bad thing about boondocking is the lack of a shower. (Wash clothes can only do so much….)
As for the Dentist appointment…around 10 am Saturday morning, pacific time, if you hear what seems to be a earth shattering noise…the earth moving below your feet…it is not an earthquake, it is not a sonic boom, it is not the second coming….it is Marcia getting her Wisdom Tooth pulled. (Actually, it is so loose, it should be a breeze, but since she has a hip replacement, she needs to be careful of infection, and so she will have a antibiotic an hour before the procedure…otherwise, I would just pull it with my needle nose pliers.)
