We were up at 7 AM. I made the coffee and started to get things outside put away. Gerri was busy getting the inside of the coach ready to travel.
We didn't start drinking our coffee until we had the Jeep hooked up and on the road. We left Gold Ranch RV at 8:15. With about 340 miles to drive our estimated time of arrival in Beatty was 3:00.
Along the way we were passed by a lot of people in vehicles leaving the Burning man event in the Black Rock Desert. We knew they were Burners because of the heavy coat of talc like dust on the vehicles.
Interesting sights greeted us as we entered Beatty. We expect to see horses and burros in this area, but not the numbers we saw today. Some of the horses were in fenced areas or near a structure like corrals or buildings. One group of 6 or 8 seemed to be moving through, possibly feral animals. I have no idea if anyone owns any of the burros. We saw lots of small herds as we approached Beatty from the north. We have never seen so many burros...seemed like 100's.
We arrived at the Death Valley Inn and RV Park just a little after three and got set up in site B8. I went to the motel office and registered. I got codes for the Wi-Fi. The pass code didn't allow us to connect. After three calls to the office seeking help we decided to leave and drive on home. The clerk refused to give us a refund and would not contact anyone higher in management. I will dispute the charge with my Visa Card provider. I have had to do this before when a merchant doesn't deliver on the promised services. I will also put bad reviews of the park on Tripadvisor, Yelp and RV Park Reviews.
We got to the house and parked at 7 PM. This was the longest day of driving on this trip, 464 miles.
Even with a couple of glitches, by leg pain and the coach in the shop for four days, we had a good trip. We stayed in 5 different RV parks, two of them new to us. We got to visit with our sons and their families along with other relatives in southern California. We stayed at a completely new place for us at Pismo Beach, CA. It was beautiful and was time for us alone to do what we pleased. We visited with friends from Arizona in central California. In Reno we visited our daughter and met the newest addition to the family, great grand daughter, Kaedline. We drove about 1300 miles in 72 days. I found 128 geocaches and hunted for 40 other that I didn't find.
Gerri warmed up the leftovers from our meal at Louies' Corner Basque Restaurant. John and Montyne are at the house until Thursday. We visited with them until after 10.
Our next planned trip, God permitting, is a flight to New York City for a 3 day day stay followed by a ten day cruise to Quebec.
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