October 22, Fernley, NV

WOW we have been in Fernley now almost a month.

Fernley is in a rural area east of Reno by about 30 miles. In the Eastern foothills of the Virginia Mountain Range with some pretty awesome mountain views and some awesome sunrise and sunsets.

Of course many might think of the area for the skiing in Tahoe, NV.

This week has been very nice, cool evenings and mild days. However, the wind has been gusty and the  mountains above 6-7 thousand feet  are expecting to get approximately 18" of snow from this storm.

Fernley is at the cross roads of I-80 and where 95 and 50 all trisect. It is also the starting point of HWY 50, known as the loneliest road in America.

Carson City, NV is the capital of Nevada with many historic buildings and plenty of hiking trails is toward our southwest by about 60 miles.

Lovelock NV is known as the "Banana Belt" established in 1868. It's community is approximately 2400 people.

I will try to get some local pictures soon and post them to this post.

Amazon is an interesting place...... I've had to eat my words when we stumbled onto the Amazon booth stating  "oh it will be fun" several times. I'm not sure I would want to be more than a temp employee here. We walk many many miles a day picking merchandise to ship to Amazon customers.

If you have never been to Amazon.com, you should check it out. I think they carry everything under the sun.

Speaking of sun... the sunsets and sunrise are pretty awesome here.

We were able to catch some pictures of the snow that was dumped in the higher elevations west of Fernley. I think I heard some reports there were 3-4 feet in some areas.

In addition some pretty unusal clouds that almost looked a little like space ships.... or so we thought ha ha

Sept 12 San Francisco

Well our time in San Francisco is coming to an end, but I must say we have taken in every site imaginable.

Took in Fort Point which was built in the late 1800's and was nearly tore down in order for the Golden Gate Bridge to be built. The engineers decided they could make some changes to the design and they would be able to build the Golden Gate Bridge with the removal of the old Fort Point.

Took in a car show, drove to San Jose to see the Winchester Mystery house and so many other things that you may get tired reading about it.

We leave the 13th head to Sacramento for a night then on to Fernley, NV. I expect things to be kinda boring now for a month or two :)

Sept 3rd San Francisco

We made our way further South to San Francisco/Pacifica from Santa Rosa.  KC had mentioned we would see plenty of fog, wow that was a surprise. As we circled around to head across the Golden Gate Bridge and suddenly it appeared a little above the fog. As we made our way across the Golden Gate Bridge the fog got a little lighter. As we pulled into our RV park the sun began to shine.

Our RV park is right on the Pacific and we look over the ocean and enjoying our foggy mornings and evenings.

We have explored the city, seeing the Wharf, Pier 39, Nob Hill, Lombard Street, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Muir Woods National Park, Sausalito, Historic Grace Cathedral, Castro, The Painted Lady's.

WOW, that is a lot right??

Muir Woods was was purchased in 1905 to ensure the redwoods wood be protected the land was then donated to the government. In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the area as a national monument which was named Muir after John Muir a conservationist. Redwoods grow well along the fog drenched coast of California, some that are over 600 years old. They can grow to be over 250 feet tall with roots that are only 13 to 14 feet deep but they can be far reaching as far out as 100 feet from the tree.

Grace Cathedral was constructed between 1927 and 1964 and is the third largest Episcopal cathedral and stands tall atop Nob Hill.

We are going to Alcatraz on Friday, we can't wait.