Finding Our Way
The 50,000 Silver $ is a bar, gift shop, restaurant, casino, RV Park, motel, and gas station. It sits off I-90 about halfway between Missoula, Montana and Spokane, Washington. It started in 1952 in Alberton, Montana where customers would press silver dollars into the bar countertop as a way to
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We departed southern Idaho and headed north on I-15 going over Monida Pass which sits at about 6,870 feet elevation along the Continental Divide. The pass divides Idaho and Montana. We started to see snow not only in the mountains but along the side of the road. It is May
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Our first stop for the morning was a fuel station in Nephi, a Texaco. We liked their sign by the pumps offering to help disabled customers. Good on you Texaco. Then we continued on for the wild drive through Salt Lake City. It was a downpour most of the way
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We departed Grand Plateau just east of Kanab and headed west through Kanab and past the caves and on to the Thunderbird Restaurant In Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah which is famous for Ho-Made Pies!! We continued on past Archie’s Food To Die for in Orderville. It was wasn’t long before
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We are off to Kanab! We drove north through Flagstaff and stopped for lunch at Wupatki Ruins turnoff with the snow covered Mt Humphreys in the distance. We continued on to Page and west through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, one of my favorite places. Our goal was to pick up
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On to our third campground at Joshua Tree National Park which was Black Rock Canyon Campground. This campground is on the northwest corner of Joshua Tree near the town of Yucca Valley. It was almost an hour drive thought the park passing many of the sites and the crowds. It
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After enjoying a lovely time at Indian Cove Campground at Joshua Tree National Park we headed back east and then south to our next campground in the park, Jumbo Rocks. It is about a 30 minute drive between campgrounds and along the way we decided to stop at Sky’s The
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One of our favorite and easy rest stops heading west towards Lake Havasu or California is Bouse, Arizona. There is a rest stop along with the Bouse Museum along Hwy 72 in the center of town with a number of artifacts on display. There is plenty of room for large
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Today’s drive was a short one as we drove from River Island State Park in Parker north to Lake Havasu State Park. It took us about 40 minutes. We arrived a bit early and had to wait int the parking lot by the boat ramp. As soon as our site
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Time for a bit of “fall” camping. We call it “fall” because it is the end of October but it is still quite warm in Arizona and along the Colorado River. We departed Phoenix and headed west towards the Colorado River. We passed through Wickenburg with no issues. We continued
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