Tuesday: Travel Day
In preparation of going full-time one of the things we had
to figure out was how to have internet wherever we went. We looked into a roof satellite dish (too big
and too much $$ for us) and Verizon Mobile Hotspots (only work when you have
cell service). We decided to go with the
hotspot. It means that we won’t always
be able to post every day, but when we do have service it seems to work pretty
well. Then the battery wouldn’t hold a charge so a stop at the Verizon store in
Redmond had to happen before we left town. According to the guy at Verizon, you
can’t use a twelve volt (car) charger with the hot spot. Something about how they ‘slam’ power into
the battery. Who knew? I had planned on
using the 12 volt all the time because we don’t usually have shore power
(110). We do have solar power and an
inverter, so I guess we will have to use that system whenever we need to charge
that puppy.
Once on the road, we headed south on 97. We had hoped to stop at the Paulina Lakes
area, but it was snowing when we came through.
Too cold for me to get out and hike around. We went through several
little snow showers as we headed south. Just
past La Pine we caught SR 31 and headed toward Paisley. We saw a hot spring listed on the map at
Summer Lake and decided to check it out.
It had snowed here last night, but most of it was gone, just cold still.
The hot spring had a campground attached, so we stayed here
last night. At $40 per night, it was a little spendy for the location, but it
included unlimited soaks. The pool is
concrete and inside a tin building. Not
as big as Burgdorf and not as warm. We decided to leave this morning without a
second soak, just not warm enough for us.
Indoor hot springs
Nice size pool, just not warm enough
We spent the day heading south; doesn’t that mean that we
should be getting warmer? Not today. Yesterday when it was snowing it didn’t stick
to anything. Today there was enough snow
that the snow plows were out to clear the slush off the side of the roads. There were even a couple places where only
the two-tracks where the tires rode were clear of snow. This is not what we signed up for. We had hoped to spend the night near
Susanville California, with a dual sport or truck tour of Lassen Volcanic
Park. We saw all the snow in that
direction and decided to continue on toward Reno. At 4:30 we pulled into Nevada at the
Bordertown RV Resort. No hot spring, but for less than we paid last night,
it is a nice clean modern park with full hook ups. It also has hot showers, Wi-Fi, laundry room
and a casino. After all it is Nevada!
Thursday:
Today we stopped in at Dirt Tricks/Ironman Sprockets in
Minden NV. Minden is located just south of Carson City. Several years ago at the
Idaho summer ride we camped and rode with one of the guys from there, Greg, and
Wayne has worked with Nate over the phone and email.
Wayne's used their sprockets on many of our bikes. We stopped in
because they had both mentioned that they ride right out of the shop. Riding areas often have camping areas and we
were tired of RV parks. We keep the cats
in the coach when we are in heavily populated areas such as parks and some
campgrounds. They hate it; they like to
go outside particularly at dusk and dawn. People wonder how we can just let
them out when we usually camp in the forest or dessert, typically
mentioning coyotes and other critters.
Actually we are more worried about people; someone seeing them and
thinking they have been abandoned and then taking them home.
Andy in Camp
Bailey at a pond
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