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Hello everyone!! Hope all are trying to have a nice summer. We are finally enjoying ours up here near Lake Tahoe. Now we only have about 7 more days left and we head to our next host spot in California. Knights Ferry, it’s an Army Corp of Engineer day use park. We have been having a great time up here at Spooner Lake, Tahoe Nevada State Park. We have done a lot of good things for this park to get ready for the many hikers to hike the 2.8 miles around Spooner Lake, and this is also a trail head for the many other trails that overlook Lake Tahoe, The famous Marlette Lake flume trail, plus the 165 mile Tahoe Rim Trail that goes all around Lake Tahoe.

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This is some of the work we have done in the park.. Our main concern in this park is to maintain and clear the hiking and biking trails. Plus we are to clean and maintain 3 primitive campgrounds up the trails along with 2 nice log cabin rentals.

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This is a trail map of all the trails that we are to maintain and clean up. Spooner lake is at the bottom of the Map.. All up and down these trails is where you can get the best views of Lake Tahoe. That is where some of the pictures you see of mine of the Flume Trail and Marlette Lake..

Jodi and I have done some awesome site seeing while we have been here, and I want to highlight some of the sites we have seen and done.

We went down to Carson City and have seen a few places. We stopped at the train museum and have seen some of the old trains that were involved in the connection of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad making it a completed Transcontinental Railroad back in 1869… We went on a nice train ride in one of the old trains that was built back in the late 1800s.. While on our trip we saw some wild horses, deer and lots of history. We went by some old mines getting to Virginia City. 

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We recently drove all the way around Lake Tahoe; A driving tour with our own truck and drove clock wise. We got to a few scenic areas and most were so packed, we couldn’t even stop. We did our best and did see some nice spots.

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All around our park we have lots of wild flowers popping up. The snow finally has gone and the flowers are blooming. We have some squirrels that look like chipmunks and they love our bird feeder.

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We had a chance to go up one of the trails that they call the Marlette Flume Trail. It is famous for mountain bikes to go and see the views of Lake Tahoe. It is a very scary cliff trail; make one mistake you’re dead kind of trail… we checked it out… Got some real beautiful pictures of that trail and Marlette lake. Marlette Lake is 7,823 Feet  in elevation.. Still snow up here in June/July….

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Well in a few weeks we will be on our way to a new hosting position in California. Heading to another new place and another adventure. We have not even scratched the surface of all the amazing places to see in the beautiful country of ours..

Going to leave you with some more of my pictures of this awesome place they call Lake Tahoe….

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Stay tuned and when we arrive in California and settled in to our new location. I will add some good information to our blog….

Enjoy your summer and Happy 4^th of July, be safe and get ready for some interesting weather for the rest of the year.  

The Bobble Head Travelers,   Mark and Jodi

Hello everyone, we arrived on the 15^th of April and we have finally made it to our hosting spot at Spooner Lake State Park here in Nevada, just outside of Carson City, and just a few miles from Lake Tahoe. We are totally disconnected out here because it’s in the mountains. Elevation here at our site is just over 7,000 feet. The only WiFi is at the office and that is about a 5 min walk from our site, so we can go once a day to check on our messages and social media. So if we don’t respond right away we have a day delay.. LOL 

When We Arrived

Because of the elevation, when we arrived at the park it still had 4 to 5 ft. of snow. And to top it off, it was snowing our first day and night. We had 85 degree weather in the last two weeks of our travels up north, and now 32 degrees and snow. We wanted to avoid snow! This is surely a new experience for us. The snow drifts made it very difficult for Jodi and me to get our RV into our site. It took many tries to get it in but we did it. It was a tight squeeze into our site with snow drifts. The park said they have never had an RV this size come here, so we are the first ever big rig. To let you know, this is a DAY use park only, so there is no camping at this park. We are the only ones here in the park overnight and with an RV. People come to snow shoe, hike, fish, kayak, canoe and picnic then leave at dusk. So at night we are all to ourselves with nature. Peace and quiet. 

Here are some pictures of our site and some of the park with all of the snow. The snow is melting about 1 foot per week, and we have about 4 to 5 feet up here in the mountains.

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We took a ride towards a small town called Glenbrook heading south along lake Tahoe where we will be getting our mail, and then headed to Incline Village at the northern end of Lake Tahoe and OMG, it just took our breath away; the view and the beauty of this place. Judge for yourself, I took some of these pictures. 

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We plan on doing some fun stuff while here; i.e train museum and train tours, and other site seeing stuff, and of course hike the Spooner Lake trails.. Stay tuned…

Wanted to post some pictures of Valley of Fire just outside Las Vegas, this was a place we have been told is a must to see, and we are glad we did. It was a magical kind of place. Such beautiful colors and rock formations everywhere.  Most people say this is on their Bucket List..See for yourself…

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There were two more places Goldfield and Hawthorne, Nevada, that we stopped at just before arriving at Spooner Lake. We stayed at each place for two days. Goldfield is a mining town and has a few interesting places. It is an old mining town. Also interesting here is they have an International Car forest. Nice art work… We added our own art to the van, a heart…

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One of the oldest Saloons in Nevada is here in Goldfield, went in had a few drinks… Neat place..

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More pictures of Goldfield, NV

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One of the main interests here is the haunted Goldfield Hotel that they have been trying to get back into service since 1945. The Ghosts will not allow that to happen. The construction keeps getting halted for some reason. Wonder what that could be…This hotel has been featured on many ghost shows. Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters. You can YouTube it and find out..

When we arrived at Hawthorne it was nice and warm, shorts weather, and could see snow capped mountains in the distance; beautiful site to see. What’s interesting about Hawthorne, NV is it’s a small town that has an Army Depot, and a Navy base. This place has over 3,000 ammunition bunkers for storage. Part of the reason it has ammunition bunkers is due to an accidental ordinance explosion in New Jersey in 1962 that almost took out the whole city, so they wanted to move it out in the middle of the desert, here in Hawthorne, NV.. Go figure.. The town has two museums and unfortunately they both were closed when we arrived, so we could not see them, but one had a lot of info and exhibits outside, so I took some pictures.

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So since we have been here for nearly a week, Wanted to say we are going to enjoy what we can while here, hosting and site seeing.  It is starting to warm up a little.  Being up in the mountains 7,000 feet, we are getting used to the elevation with working, moving around getting winded a lot and our ear popping when we go to Carson City.  We can were shorts in Carson City, but dress warmer at our site up the mountains…  Carson City is around 5, 000 feet and the temperature is about 10 to 15 degrees warmer then where we are. So if its 65 in Carson City, its 50 to 55 where we are..  Much cooler.  We have lots of things to do and see here, so check out our blog again soon for more of our adventures while here in Nevada. Hope all are doing well, and we both do hope your weather is getting warmer and not to warm.

Stay tuned and see where we Bobble to next!! 

 

Bobble Head Travelers,  Mark and Jodi