MAR 22, Monday, Pahrump
A quiet day at home, we went to town to fill up the truck @ $2.85/gal. then went looking for new runners for me as the one I have don’t give me enough support in my ankles. Didn’t find any but while at Wal-Mart, we shopped for groceries then came home. We read and sat outside for the rest of the day. The evening was pleasantly warm and we walked to Terrible Casino for dinner: New-York steak and the works for 9.90 each. That included the salad bar. We ordered 2 glasses of red wine for 4.40 for both. Can’t beat that! Afterwards we spent two dollars each at the bar playing black jack and got our drinks for free as long as we played! WOW!
MAR 23, Tuesday, Geo-caching to Death Valley
It was really windy overnight, so much so that it woke me a couple times. The rig was shaking. It was still windy when we got up and took Tucker for a walk. After getting propane @ $2.50/gal, we headed south on 160 then west on the Old Spanish Trail taking us to Death Valley. On the way, we picked up about ten caches and a further 10 on the way back.(they were all along the highway). The funny thing is that as we were leaving Pahrump it was still very windy yet about 5 miles away, there was hardly any wind. I think that the closeness of the mountains may have an effect on the strength of the wind!??
The Old Spanish Trail was nothing extraordinary and we made our way to Tecopa, CA then to Shoshone where we had lunch and had to pick up two caches here so after eating we proceeded to find them and ended up in a historic site call “Dublin Caves” which we hadn’t seen before when we came here a few years ago. Check out the pictures as they speak for themselves better than me. It was living quarters built in the clay embankments by an old miner and eventually other people joined him and had built more living quarters in the hill sides. It was quite something to see and we even got to walk inside one of them as most were locked. There was also a cemetery from that era. According to history, the last residents lived in those caves until the late 1970. WOW!
We came home via 178 CA/372 NV and found another half dozen caches along the way.
MAR 24, Wednesday, Happy Birthday Hayley!
We decided to go back to Death Valley and visit Furnace Creek which is approx 100 feet below sea level. We left around 11 a.m. and found 14 caches and 3 virtual. Some of the caches were really neat; for example, one was a little truck with a box that held the log book, another was a turtle made out of a helmet, really neat. We had to do some hiking to find some of them and rock climbing for one although we found an easier way once at the top, of course!
A virtual cache consist of answering questions about the area one is in, then post the answer via an e-mail to the owner. A lot of fun and can be quite educational as it makes you do some researches sometime.
Anyway, we took lots of pictures; we had forgotten how beautiful the ride down to Furnace Creek is. We stopped at Death Valley Junction where we had lunch. This is a very small place, actually almost a ghost town but they do have a hotel that has an opera show every Saturday and Sunday and it is very popular, believe it or not! Once at Furnace Creek, we found it quite warm, 72*F when we left Pahrump; 85*F at Furnace Creek, in Death Valley and this is early spring!!! We looked around, resolved 2 virtual caches then came home via the same way.
In the evening, we called Hayley and wished her a Happy Birthday and talked to the rest of the family too. Kevin was out at a hockey game. Jeffrey also called us which was a pleasant surprise and we had a nice chat.
MAR 25, Thursday, Pahrump
I logged our caches in the morning, Val did some laundry and I checked the fuses in the truck as my cruise control and my exhaust retarder are not working. They just quit yesterday!??????
Anyway, I went to the Chevrolet dealer (there is no Ford dealer in Pahrump) and 2.5 hours later, it was still sitting outside so I told them to shove it and went somewhere else. I have to go back first thing in the morning (the other garage).
The window repair guy finally showed up to seal the Emergency windows as the cold air just blows in unrestricted. He had a rubber seal but it didn’t work so he’ll be back in the morning too. It blew a fairly strong wind most of the day but it is warm. That kind of a day!!!
MAR 26, Friday, Pahrump
First thing this morning, I took the truck to the garage to get my cruise control and exhaust Jake checked at a local garage. While they checked it, I went for breakfast at a local casino then afterwards found out that it had something to do with my Jake but they wouldn’t do anything about it because they weren’t sure what to do. So I came home and made a call to BD in Abbotsford and got a dealer for BD Jake in Las Vegas. We got Tucker and left for the dealer in Vegas. They checked it, changed a couple wires that were corroded but they figured that the Jake brake control box had to be changed but they didn’t have one and since we are leaving Sunday, we didn’t want to hang around so will get it fix when back in Canada. We drove back to Pahrump against a strong wind and filled up once back home @ $2.93/gal. It has gone up since our last fill up.
We came home and relaxed for the rest of the day. Still windy by 5 pm but it is warm!
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