No reveille this morning! It was a nice cool morning, and we got packed up and left Fallon NAS at 9:30. The drive to Tonopah was surprisingly beautiful, a high plains desert. It was so vast, and the horizons so far. There were no towns of any size at all. There were vast areas of scrub with bare mountains around in beautiful colors. I was really impressed. Today’s photo is miles out from the small town of Schurz in the Walker River Indian Reservation.
We made it here to the Tonopah Ramada hotel/casino/RV park. But it isn’t your normal Ramada. The hotel is on the second floor of a two-story building with shops underneath. The casino is a small one with just machines, no tables. And the “RV park” is in the small parking lot out back. So funny, but we do have electric, water, and sewer. We found a spot, and then Bill went in to check in at the cashier’s counter. We hooked up the electric and then went into the restaurant for lunch. It is like a small town diner, but the sandwiches weren’t bad.
Bill took off at 3 to go explore mining museums. He bought some books about mining and ghost towns, subjects that I don’t share his interest. I watched some TV that I had taped and worked a bit on labeling photos. Bill called a couple of times, one of which he was on his way 8 miles out of town to the old Tonopah military base from the 1940s. He saw 3 hangers and dozens of foundations. He also loved the sign on the road that said “Next Gas 163 miles”.
I enjoyed my few hours by myself. Tonight we just grazed in the refrigerator and watched TV. Bill wants to stop at a couple of ghost towns tomorrow on the way to Vegas. I am not too excited about that, but they aren’t too far out of the way.
I think tonight is our last cool night for quite a while. Tomorrow Vegas is supposed to be 104 degrees! Sigh.
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