WE MADE IT~Quartzsite-AZ

We pulled stakes in wet and rainy WA State, Tuesday afternoon; and headed for the sunshine :-)

Pulling stakes Tuesday afternoon; a novel to read until we travel through new territory.

Clive Cussler; I like reading his books.

We chose the route through Nevada.

Holland hadn't been through most of the route's territory (he always drove freeway when possible), and I hadn't been through this leg of the road trip in 9-1/2 years - at one point of our adventure, I had Holland laughing when I pointed to the garishly painted 'Area 51' building, and told him how shocked I was to realize there was "active business going on in broad daylight" in the pink {cathouse} tacked onto the Area 51 Alien Center, when we (Bob, me, and our granddaughter Alyna) stopped in there to grab a sandwich on our way to see her new baby brother, in Vegas ;-)

But when I'd been this way before with Bob and Alyna, we had driven over the Blue Mountains in Oregon, through a bit of Idaho, and on into Vegas-NV - changing drivers along the way: we made the trip in 18 hours and were dead tired when we arrived.

The route Holland and I took started out & ended differently as we took different highways towards a different destination.

But that alienating pink cathouse was planted in the middle of both routes :-(

Heart-shaped cloud overhead, as we drove through Wilsonville-OR. I love the way Elohim shows me His love for me every step of my new life journey :-)

Crossing a foggy Pass in the Tahoe area.

The NV landscape following the foggy Pass, was covered with blooming sage bushes.

I laughed when I spotted this hill - it looked like a Naturistic bellybutton. LOL!

2:08'noon - we were liking the sunny warmth ;-); there was a fresh dusting of snow along the mountainous ridgeline.

A mining site along the Nevada route, coming into Luning.

Luning-NV elevation.

Luning-NV Info:

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luning,_Nevada)

Strange little dirt 'bowls'.

More snow-dusted mountain tops.

Tonopah Mining Park-NV.Tonopah Mining Park: (https://www.tonopahminingpark.com/)

We decided to 'push through' .. as far down the road as possible before pulling over and catching a few zzz's.

Joshua Trees dotted the landscape …

Joshua Tree Info:

(https://blog.tentree.com/10-facts-about-the-incredible-joshua-tree/)

Amargosa Valley-NV: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amargosa_Valley,_Nevada)

Area 51 Alien Center-cathouse; Amargosa Valley, NV

 Amargosa Valley-NV evening temperature; we slept for 2 hours in a graveled truck lot, kitty-corner a bit from the Area 51 Store-cathouse. 9:06 PM

Quartzsite early morning temperature; we crashed in a graveled lot and slept for 6 hours. 3:10 AM arrival time.

We finally made it!

We were on the road for 26 hours & 1,800 miles … from Washington State to Arizona State, (we took a brief 2 hour siesta in Nevada - mentioned above).

LOVE waking up to sunshine! We all like this site, but we may move along, further towards the mountains.

This adventure has been 8 months in the making, But, we are here now … and Bleu is enjoying his time out of the 4x.

The weather is wonderful!

 We are gonna like this new environment; temperature as I'm shutting down to go to bed tonight.