Lee and Elaine's RV Adventures: Ready, Set, Go!!!

After making reservations for an RV Rally in New York City a year and a half ago, the time has finally come to start our adventure. For years we've wanted to do a cross-country RV trip but for one reason or another, it never happened. So, in February of 2012, while staying at the Palm Springs Thousand Trails RV Park, we attended a presentation by Fantasy RV Tours, in which they described their RV vacations. Since I hadn't been to New York City in over 30 years and Lee has never been there, I thought the only way I would see New York again was to either take a cruise that stopped there, since we love to cruise, or sign up for Fantasy's RV rally. The problem with a cruise, though, is the ship is in port for only a short time, so we chose the RV rally, which is eight days of sightseeing in the Big Apple!

July 30, 2013

For the next eight or nine months, our 38-foot Bounder motorhome is going to be home. Here we are, our towed all hooked up and ready to go.

Lee and I share the driving and I usually drive first in the morning. So I got the exciting part of the drive - Hwy. 49 north to Auburn - full of twists and turns, then east on I-80 to Winnemucca, Nevada.

The town was named for a local Indian, Chief Winnemucca. Winnemucca has several different interpretations: one moccasin, charitable man, and man with a hole in his nose since his nose was pierced.

I think the town's claim to fame must be when Butch Cassidy and his gang robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca of $32,640 in 1900.

Currently, a huge housing complex for mine workers is being built by Hycroft Mine. Hycroft Mine is reopening its open pit mining operation about 50 miles west of Winnemucca on its 62,000 acres.