Exploring Beatty Nevada.

Beatty Nevada is a cool little town known as the gateway to Death Valley.

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I love the desert for it’s art. There is a closed Brothel in Beatty named Angel’s Ladies and they have an airplane out front.

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Next stop is Rhyolite Ghost Town. These days Rhyolite is more like an artist colony than a ghost town. All photos below are for personal use and not for reproduction! The artists have copyrighted all their art displays.

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Stay tune for Death Valley.

Summer in Oregon.

This year we’re spending the summer in Oregon. We’ve been standing still in Western Arizona but it got to hot so it’s time to go. We left Monday May 5th and our first stop is the town of Beatty, Nevada. Here’s some shots of the Nevada dessert on the way to Beatty.

 

More to come from the road; Death Valley, Twin Falls Idaho’s – Perrine Bridge, Shoshone Falls, and more TBD.

 

#photocation

So in this time of social distancing and the like maybe it time to post photo’s of vacations or just plan travels. Let’s your best #photocation. Today’s photocation is Glacier National Park.

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Glacier N.P. MT

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We got our Kicks on Route 66.

Yesterday was that day where you just can’t do the same thing you’ve been doing for another day. That can only mean one thing, we need to take a drive see something different. We started in the AG country in Laughlin NV.

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Yup kind of an ugly day but the desert is as green as we have every seen it. We took some back roads over to Route 66 “The Mother Road” and followed it through Oatman, AZ to the out skirts of Kingman AZ.

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The colors and textures of a Spring Desert.

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We hope you enjoyed this Pic-cation.

 

 

 

Better late, than never

Here’s some pictures from our stay in Southern California. One of my favorite things to do is take the Balboa ferry. As you can see everything in Newport Beach knows how to surf .

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Views from the Balboa ferry. I would not recommend taking full size truck or rv to go on the ferry. Lots of  narrow streets to get to ferry and ferry only holds 3 cars at a time.

Boats in the Harbor.Sail Boats in the Harbor.

 

Crystal Cove is a great little State Park right on the coast.

 

A couple of random shots taken.

Monarch Butterfly sitting on a flower.

 

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Summer in Southern California.

This is our spot at the campground we are staying at in Sam Dimas.

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Walking around the rv park you get these great aerial views of Puddingstone Lake.            ( Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park) 

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In the distance you can see Brackett Field a small airport in the city of La Verne.

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In our section the wildlife is pretty tame.

Cotton Tail Rabbit in the grass.Squirrel seatting on a rock surrounded by plants.Two Birds Feeding at a Bird Feeder.

The Cactus is what we see when we sit outside. Our site backs up to a hill that has a lot of this type of Cactus.

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