Sunday, November 14, 2021

Parker, Colorado to Sacramento, CA 11/14 - 11/18/2021 Travel Tour END

                                  From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com                                                                                                          Tim and Linda Bunyan

We are heading out on Interstate 70 from Parker, Colorado for the final home stretch.

 Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel

Traverses through the Continental Divide at an average elevation of 11,112'


Vail is world-renowned skiing, with diverse shops and restaurants, luxurious accommodations, friendly neighborhoods and breathtaking mountain views.

Colorado River enters the Grand Valley, where its waters are used to irrigate over 40,000 acres of ag land.  It passes Grand Junction, the largest town of upper Colorado, joined by the Gunnison River, its largest tributary within Colorado.


The first stop is Grand Junction, Colorado at Starvin' Marvin's Truck Stop. Late-night dump station at James Robb Colorado River State Park.

The next day through Utah and

 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, 

Train, 

Salt refinery, Salt Flats.

Next stop onto Interstate 80 at the Nevada State line at Wendover. Overnight at Flying J

Encounter of the highway.  Truck Haulers are very busy.  This one carries rubber converter belts for the mining industry.

An overnight in Nevada in the town of Fernley.  Flying J overnight


CA Trail Interpretive Center

Elizabeth Rose is 5 months old and we are so happy to see her.   After about 8,000 towing miles (Sacramento to Lebec, ME - the furthest east point of the U.S. and return through the Appalachians, South through Memphis, then MO, and Colorado.)

From Fernley, Nevada we arrive in Sacramento. Moved into Elks Lodge, Rancho Cordova.  Visited Jason and Erin and Rose and I went for a walk in the neighborhood in her stroller.  She loves to look up at the sky through the leaves and tree branches. 

Tim replaced the entire door latch.