Great Basin RV Trip: Spring 2015

I was a little leary about being cooped up in an RV with six crazy Cresaps, but it was great! The novelty of it all! The doors and buttons that could be pushed! The cabinet doors that could be opened and shut! The comfort and convenience!

Our first stop was Delta, where we visited the Topaz Japanese Interment Camp musem. It's only been open a year.

They had a "replica" of the houses where the residents lived.

One of the residents was a Berkley art professor. He began a art school with over 100 pupils of all ages. The museum had an exhibit of their paintings. I think this one is amazing.

Also in Delta, was a Natural History Museum. I was stoked about this exhibit of Moqui Marbles as the previous summer we had found some of those on a hike to Headquarters Canyon in Capitol Reef and were really curious about them.

The only downside of being in an RV, was that we were not allowed to drive off the pavement and Delta was surrounded by amazing rock hounding sites. We will go there again with an off-road vehicle! There are great places to find geodes and topaz, apache tears and even garnet.

Burning off some pent up energy!

The favorite spot in the RV

As it we continued our journey towards Great Basin (2 miles west of the Utah/Nevada border) it started getting dark and so I started making dinner as we traveled along! When we arrived at our campsite we immediately sat down and ate our flanksteak, salad, biscuit and brownie dinner. We played some dungeons and dragons and then went to sleep and were happy to be inside our RV as there was snow on the ground and it was brrr out there!. In the morning we had several feathered visitors a few feet away from the RV. There were 10 of these typically shy creatures. They must have known they were in a National Park! I doubt they would ever have come this close to tents, but the RV kept all of our people scents and people noises inside.

As per usual, we celebrated Tal's birthday while on our Spring Break vacation. He's a good sport about that!

He got a kindle.

We had planned to drive through the park but all of the roads except the road to the campsites and to the Lehman Cave Visitor Center were closed due to snow. So all we saw in the park was the Lehman Cave, but it was awesome. Not only did it have the typical (and some atypical) cave formations, but there was actually a lot of history! In the Depression the cave served as a speak-easy and later they had friday night dances with live bands and Hollywood movies have used the cave for a set. And one interesting factoid: the ranger said that during an earthquake the cave would be the safest location as nothing would be desturbed inside. That kind of defies logic, but, ok!

This is a the graffiti room where a lot of early visitors left their signatures.

These are rare shield formations.

This is called the Angel's Wing. It was in a room that was 60 feet high!

It was nice to see the scenery in the daylight as we drove home. I'm a sucker for desolate beauty. You can see Sevier Lake here. It's about 25 miles long and is more salt than water.

A tuckered out traveler

Playing video games--not easily done in a car!

Comfy master suite! Thumbs up on the RV vacay! We'd do it again!