Tim and Linda Bunyan
Work Truck maintenance adjusting switches, tightening loose track components, and surfacing and lining track to keep straight sections. Ballast is the bed of gravel or other aggregates that sits underneath train tracks.
Over 100 miles west of Salt Lake, we come upon a Highway Rest Area.
I am glad it is time for a stop. Especially because at this Rest Area, one can go into the water and also view the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway!
In Wendover, Utah.
view the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway at the foot of the mountains
The unique scenery and the racing events bring people here for Speed Week in August since 1912. Here is a view of the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway!
On the Dwight D. Eisenhower Hwy - the Interstate Highway #80 portion.
Sign along the Highway I like
We arrive to see our good friends Rob and Sandy Connelly at their Nevada Ranch! So nice to be back home. Rob and Sandy followed much of our 2019 Travel Tour route thru Oregon and met up with us around the Olympic Peninsula and on to Cour d Alene too!
Rob has his Astoria, Oregon shirt on. :-) You can see Rob and Sandy make us happy!
We are now settled in Sacramento at the Elks Lodge while we transition from the Travel Trailer, visit the children, visit the dentist, GP doctor, and eye doctor. We will store the trailer, CasaRoll, and the truck for the winter months and change over to the Lexus for our drive and stay in Mazatlan. We shall be here for Angela's birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas at Angela and Lee's house in the East Bay.
The air show is being held and the Elks Lodge located next to the airport.
We have a front-row seat!
Home Sweet Home!
We depart Salt Lake City, Utah and leave behind the rail center, Salt Lake, and head to
Sacramento to end our Travel Tour 2019. It is October and time to transition from our travel trailer (living in aluminum) to live in our beach house for the winter months.
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. This landlocked body of water is an average depth of 15'. Its white-sand beaches are popular with swimmers and sunbathers, and craggy outcroppings on Antelope Island draw hikers and mountain bikers.
The Salt of Salt Lake: One of five businesses extract salt and other minerals from the lake through solar evaporation ponds. No food-grade salt comes from the Great Salt Lake. It is used for road salt, water softeners, and salt licks for livestock.
Over 100 miles west of Salt Lake, we come upon a Highway Rest Area.
Utah's famed measured mile - site of World Land-Speed Record Runs. This place was erected for spectators by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1972.
The HIghway along the Bonneville Speedway which is along the horizon
at foot of the mountains.
at foot of the mountains.
view the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway at the foot of the mountains
The unique scenery and the racing events bring people here for Speed Week in August since 1912. Here is a view of the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway!
National Register of Historic Places!
We depart Utah Mountain time zone and cross into Pacific TimeZone into Nevada.
We are within a couple hundred miles of Reno where we will stop to visit Rob and Sandy Connelly at their 40-acre ranch.
On the Dwight D. Eisenhower Hwy - the Interstate Highway #80 portion.
Just west of Elko, Nevada, we came upon the California Trail Interpretive Center. We are intrigued and pull in for a discovery moment in time!
We found this place keen and an amazing facility ran by the Bureau of Land Management! More than about the Donner Party story, there are stories of over 250,000 brave pioneers that made their way west on the California Trail.
Artifacts, models, and programs about the CA Gold Rush, American Indian heritage specific to the regions; hiking trailhead from the Center. The rugged Ruby Mountain range is the background. We spent a couple of hours inside the building and highly recommend everyone to come and bring their children. The interpretive Center visitors can experience the 1850 Wagon Encampment and musical performances,
historic displays, and activities.
historic displays, and activities.
Keep your eye out for places like the Forty Mile Desert!
The famous quote about crossing this desert from the author: Mark Twain.
"It was a dreary pull and a long and thirsty one, for we had no water. From one extremity of this desert to the other, the road was white with the bones of oxen and horses. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that we could have walked the forty miles and set our feet on a bone at every step!"
"It was a dreary pull and a long and thirsty one, for we had no water. From one extremity of this desert to the other, the road was white with the bones of oxen and horses. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that we could have walked the forty miles and set our feet on a bone at every step!"
Modern Interstate 80 closely approximates the path of the 40 miles desert on the Carson River. Nearly the same path as The First Transcontinental Railroad (modern Overland Route) and U.S. Route 95 follow the Carson route and we carve out our own path today.
The California Trail Interpretive Center
Time to move on in our Toyota Truck horsepower and Casaroll, our covered wagon!
Other current modes of transportation through the desert
We arrive to see our good friends Rob and Sandy Connelly at their Nevada Ranch! So nice to be back home. Rob and Sandy followed much of our 2019 Travel Tour route thru Oregon and met up with us around the Olympic Peninsula and on to Cour d Alene too!
Rob has his Astoria, Oregon shirt on. :-) You can see Rob and Sandy make us happy!
We are now settled in Sacramento at the Elks Lodge while we transition from the Travel Trailer, visit the children, visit the dentist, GP doctor, and eye doctor. We will store the trailer, CasaRoll, and the truck for the winter months and change over to the Lexus for our drive and stay in Mazatlan. We shall be here for Angela's birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas at Angela and Lee's house in the East Bay.
The air show is being held and the Elks Lodge located next to the airport.
We have a front-row seat!
Home Sweet Home!
END of Travel Tour 2019
