Life At The Circus

We’ve been home two and a half weeks and I am finally taking time to record the moments of our last day of vacation…. this is proof positive that I am glad I took the time to record our memories while on vacation b/c there is no way I could have gone back and done it once home.  We woke up QUITE cold on our last full day of vacation at Great Basin National Park.  Since the elevation of our campsite was 9000+ feet we found ourselves snuggling in our sleeping bags with our sweats on.  We even took time to build one last fire in the fire ring to stand around during breakfast.   Before departing for our hike, we were treated by a visitor at our campsite… This mule deer didn’t seem at all bothered by our presence as he strolled along the stream bed right outside our tent.     We set off for the alpine lake trail.  It covered similar ground to the hike we did the day before but instead of going up towards the glacier and ancient trees, it veered to the...

    We left Gana’s house around 11 on Saturday.  Our destination was Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.  Our route was ‘the loneliest highway in America’.  It was by far our longest drive of the trip, 8 hours with no midpoint destinations.  But, of course, we made a few stops.  We were not expecting much.  We had mentally interpreted “loneliest highway” as “boringest highway” and thought it was going to be 8 hours of unchanging desert.  We were wrong.  Route 50 in Nevada is actually quite pretty.  Scott and I enjoyed the ride immensely.  The kids didn’t mind it either.  About an hour before we reached the park, we passed through the last (of 3) towns on the route.  It was around 7pm, so we had to decide if we would eat dinner here or keep going on try out the 1 restaurant in the teeny “town” closer to the park.  We opted for dinner in Ely at a Mexican restaurant I had read about online.  It was d...