Sept 20 – 21, 2011 Headed to California. I thought it was going to be a boring driving day. I 15 in Arizona turned out to be a treat. Gorgeous scenery. Then we decided to camp for the night at Lake Mead in Nevada. It took us off I 15 to Hwy 169. Whoa Nellie!!! Absolutely amazing views!!! Zig Zaggy, but a treat around every curve. Good Choice!

The Lake Mead Campground had lakeside sites.  Today was one visual treat after another. Oh! a bonus, we got to swim in Lake Mead.

Sept 21, 2011  We are stopping in Las Vegas. David has been watching Barrett Jackson Car Auctions for years.  This weekend they are having a big one at the Mandalay Bay.  We travel I 15 all the way.  David does an amazing job of driving Old Bessie from the North end of the strip all the way to the south end in horrible traffic. Then he parks her in the Mandalay Bay CAR parking.  I had to get out of the RV and move some barrels, but he made it!  Disappointment … the show doesn’t  start  until Thursday.  We can”t stay.  We have plans with my brother, Bill in Bakersfield, California.

Next stop the Sierra Trails RV park in Mojave, California.  It’s a pretty neat campground in the Mojave Desert with views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  The campground is just outside Edwards Air Force Base and close by China Lake Naval Air Weapons Center.  Lots of “Top Secret” restricted areas. The owners of the campground are retired military and real “talkers”.  I can only imagine how lonely it must be living out in the desert.  My “BIG” experience was lifting a garbage can to move it for a photo opportunity of the Sierra Nevada’s and having a scorpion coming running out from under it.  Fortunately, it ran toward a bush not my foot.  Don, the campground owner, said “there’s rattlers, scorpions and bob cats out here.  There’s a bob cat passes by every couple of nights but usually just keeps on going”.  Very interesting.  Time to go now!  On to Bakersfield.