Day: October 19, 2019

Good day everyone, I know its been a little while since I had a post. I wanted to take a few more pictures of this beautiful place before leaving. We only have a few days left here at Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park (Spooner Lake) and all of its surrounding beauty.  We have been here for 6 months and we are sad its ending, but we do plan on coming back in the summer of 2021. We had a blast working here and had fun with all the rangers and seasonal staff. Will miss this place.  Here are some more pictures of the area.

Jodi and I walked The Marlette Flume Trail and got some beautiful pictures up at 7,500+ ft elevation and about a week later I got up to about 8,700 to the Sand Harbor Overlook.. Beautiful…

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Some shots of our snow storm in September.

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Now a few weeks later we have fall foliage..

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Ranger Steve and Myself doing Selfies.. Being Goofy too……

Pictures below were taken by Brian Montes who is a park staff member we worked with.. Great photos. Thank you Brian.

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We also visited a real small town about 15 miles from Spooner Lake called Genoa, NV.  This place, located within the Utah Territory before the Nevada Territory was created in 1861, Genoa was first settled by Mormon pioneers. The settlement originated as a trading post called Mormon Station,  now it’s the Mormon Station State Park. It served as a rest site for travelers on the rugged California Trail. In June 1850, H.S. Beatie and fellow Mormons built a roofless log enclosure and corral as a trading post near a small stream. Emigrants could obtain clothing, tobacco, meat, canned goods, coffee, beans, sugar, flour and bacon. Cattle and a dozen wagons loaded with supplies to establish a permanent trading post. By 1852, emigrant traffic thru the area was heavy and the settlement expanded,  a post office opened, a blacksmith shop was built, and sawmills were built. Here is also the oldest Thirst Parlor Bar Saloon in Nevada established in 1853.  Every year since 1919, Genoa has held a festival called the Candy Dance, where candy, food, and crafts are sold to support its town government. This is how we discovered this small town. It was a huge market of food and crafts..

Some pictures of the Candy Dance, Arts and Crafts plus food..

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Some pictures of the neat small town of Genoa, NV

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We are moving on to our Winter hosting place in Yuma, AZ. We are going to hit some places on our way to Castle Dome Ghost town and mine Museum. Just 40 miles North East of Yuma, AZ.  We are going to help with mine tours, upkeep the ghost town, work in the gift shop and at times participate in some old western re-enactments of the 1860s. We are looking forward to having much fun with all of that during this coming Winter; November to March.  Then we head to our next Summer host job in Washington State near Mount Rainier, starting May till October 2020.

While heading to Castle Dome we will be stopping at 4 locations. We have been to two of those stops before, but we are going to Death Valley, where it is normally the hottest place in the U.S.. and it also has the lowest elevation in the U.S.. -278 below sea level… Then to Nellis AFB just outside Las Vegas.. Visit Family while there and check on our Winter hosting job for 2020 at Desert National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Las Vegas. Then we head to Havasu State Park, AZ.. That’s a nice park and the London Bridge is right there too….   We have been to Havasu, but on the California side, the state park is on the AZ side… Fun fun…

I posted this on our last post about Castle Dome Ghost Town and Mine Museum. It’s a link to the site of Castle Dome…… Check it out and if you are ever out in the area of Yuma, AZ, you need to check this place out… click on site ———-> http://www.castledomemuseum.org

Stay tuned, will post some pictures of our trip South and will keep you up to date on our new adventures…

The Bobble Head Travelers,   Mark and Jodi… P. S. Happy Halloween…..