Wild Horse CG, Nevada 8-30-07

Today we walked and JOGGED, my first time in about 2 months, since I hurt myself. No pain at all, we walked about 3 miles and I jogged a half mile of it. It was already getting warm. After we got back we decided we would head on down the road. We could have stayed another night but it was going to be hot and they were going to be mowing in anticipation of the big weekend. Most all the sites were reserved up and when we left this morning only one site was still occupied. They have around 80 – 100 sites, so crazy weekend.

We packed up, dumped the tanks and hit the road around 11:30. These pictures of southwest Idaho show the boring terrain, I tried to make this one picture interesting of the road off into sagebrush infinity. We were on 51 in Idaho and it became 225 in Nevada.

Now I must say how beautiful this part of Nevada is, lots of interesting rock formations, the Owyhee River runs along the highway and is clear and fast, the sage smells wonderful and there are lots of stands Quaking Aspen and junipers scattered around. This highway has very little activity on it and there are NO train tracks.

Our destination was the Wild Horse Crossing National Forest Service campground in the National Forest. We parked and walked around looking for the best site, we had parked in our favorite, there is only one other site taken up besides the host site and we are far away from them. We drove on down the road to check out another campground but we weren’t impressed and came back to Wild Horse Crossing. We are on highway 225 north of Elko, NV., just north of Wild Horse Lake.

We checked to be sure that we would get satellite before getting set up and after Larry moved the dish three times he got it. We are tucked back in a corner with some elevation over the rest of the campground and it is extremely peaceful here. There has been a helicopter fly over a couple times but we can live with that.

Now that evening is descending I only hear one car every half hour or so. Big clouds moved in and we have already had some bursts of wind and thunder and this could carry on into the night. We are fine with that because it has cooled it off and with no hook-ups at all that means no a/c. We want to stay here until Sunday or Monday, but that will depend on how long we can make our water last. There is NO water in this campground.

We are now back in the Pacific Time zone and we have no phone service, so email is our only contact for the next few days or so.

This disgustingly weird looking grasshopper Darth Vader looking bug is huge! About an inch and three quarters long and hops and appears to suck the juice out of other dead bugs, even their own kind…gross. I give them a wide berth!