Hello Everyone, hope all are well and staying healthy.. We are now heading to Washington State for our next hosting job. We have left Desert National Wildlife Refuge and will miss it and our beautiful view we had all Winter. We will also miss the people we have met and some staff we have worked with. Wishing them all the best for the upcoming year. Please stay healthy and safe.
All Winter we had one Coot in the pond at the Refuge, and he had the pond all to himself till just a few weeks ago when some American Wigeon ducks were passing through the area. Our Cute Coot was photo bombing my pictures of the Wigeon ducks.. lol
While we were at our RV site at the Refuge, we had a group of trees near us, and we had a lot of little animals; Jack Rabbits, Antelope Squirrels and a Road Runner, and many birds outside our windows.
I tried to take a picture of our local Road Runner and he was so fast that I could not get a clear picture… Beep Beep
We had a great experience hosting at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. This is a place that everyone should visit when possible. Found outside of Las Vegas: Corn Creek, NV.
There are many places to see outside of Las Vegas. It’s not just about the glitter, lights and casinos of the Vegas Strip. Many other great sites to see all around Las Vegas. Red Rock is a National Park we went to visit.
We are heading North and hitting a few places on our way and plan to take our time so we don’t run into any snow or bad weather on the way. We will take about 40 days to get to Washington State, Federation Forest State Park, in Enumclaw, WA. It is about 30 or so miles from Mount Rainier. We can’t wait to go to that National Park. Looking forward to our new Summer Gig…
Inside of the visitor center at Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a large raised geographic map of the Refuge. Jodi took a picture of the northern boundary of the refuge, and you can see a white spot on the left and our boundary on the right, that is how close we were to Area 51….
We stopped at a small town called Ash Springs near Area 51. We traveled on E.T. Highway (Extraterrestrial Highway). Our first stop was the Alien Research Center which of course, had a lot of alien souvenirs and t-shirts. We got “Paul” our refrigerator magnet. This place is found in Alamo, NV, outside of Ash Springs, NV.
Checked out the Black Mailbox that has made it in some movies out in the middle of no where. One movie you need to see, funny as Sh-t, is Paul. This mail box is for people to communicate to the Aliens. You may leave a letter or something for them. As we were driving we saw off the road, a cow head??? Hmmm, experiments!!??
We drove a little farther on E.T. Highway to get to the infamous Little A’le’Inn.  A nice little place to get an Alien Burger with fries and a few drinks. Cool place. Got to hang a Dollar Bill on the ceiling over the Bar. This small Bar Restaurant was very popular during the Storming of Area 51 back in 2019, which did not happen by the way. We did not try to drive the 12 miles from Little A’le’Inn to Area 51. Driving to Area 51 just gets you into lots of trouble when you get too close, and you can’t see anything anyway, just a gate with signs saying stay out. It’s all a dirt road and I don’t want to do miles of that. We did that at Desert National Wildlife Refuge a lot.
Little A’le’Inn found at Rachel, NV. Outside of Area 51.
Just down the road from our RV Park, there was a little area they call Ash Springs Rock Art Site. We drove to it and here we see the Petroglyphs all over some rocks. I like to see this old ancient kind of art. Found at Ash Springs, NV.
We are slowly heading North and we are still hitting places with snow on the ground. Ely, NV had a snow storm a few days ago, and it was 18 degrees in the morning, and mid 50s during the day. We do hope we are not going to run into any snow storms in the next few weeks. We are in Ely, NV now and have about 7 more places to stop at before getting to our hosting job at Federation Forest State Park, Washington.
Hope all is well with everyone and staying safe and healthy…. When we get settled in at Washington, we will update you on our new summer gig… Take care and stay in touch, and see where we will Bobble to next.
The Bobble Head Travelers, Mark and Jodi
Byron Hibshman March 30, 2021
Take the train ride in Ely if it is running now.
admin March 30, 2021
We do plan on seeing the train museum tomorrow, but we don’t think they are doing rides now. It would be beautiful now do to snow cap mountains… We will post on face book with new photos of the museum…. We did do the train in Carson City… that was fun and took pictures of wild horses too…
Carol March 30, 2021
Safe travels! Have fun with your adventures on the way to Washington!
admin March 30, 2021
Thank you, and best wishes to you… Stay healthy and Safe..
MaryAnn Atkinson March 31, 2021
Hi Jodi and Mark, Jodi we have never met, but I feel like I know you. Sounds like you are both having wonderful travels and at the best time in your lives. Continue to explore our country and when you can, if you haven’t check out Canada. George and I did it several years ago and had just the best time. No camper but a car and B&Bs filled the bill. What a wonderful life!
admin April 3, 2021
Hello Maryann, Yes we have a great life style with our Home on Wheels. We may check out Canada later on, but it would be a few places close to the border and they would be places that are a must to see. We will most likely never go to Alaska, and if we do, its not going to be in our RV, a rental. We still have 20 more states to see and we plan on doing this for the next 10 to 15 years. We will probably host for a few more years and then just travel till we just can’t any more.
Maryann ATKINSON April 3, 2021
Enjoy wherever you are and travel in good health with lots of laughter. MaryAnn and George