Retirement Sabbatical Year of Discernment

  Kings Beach, California, October 24, 2020  The first place we touched California soil since July. Note the waves from the wind - almost enough to surf.     Thursday morning, October 22, we took our time at Camp Kelly, walking the trail again and enjoying that beautiful sage brush country before heading west on Highway 50, nicknamed the "Loneliest Road in America." We have come to love Highway 50, crossing the expanses of "sage brush ocean" between mountain ranges running from north to south in the state of Nevada. We stopped for a break at Sand Mountain, a little over 90 miles east of Camp Kelly. Sand Mountain resembles Great Sand Dunes National Park, or Great Sand Dunes National Park resembles Sand Mountain, Nevada with a mountain of sand piled up next to a mountain range. Sand Mountain is smaller than the the Sand Dunes at the National Park, the sand is whiter, and the dunes are open to Off Highway vehicles. We didn't drive back to the dunes, but stopped to ...

A picture of us at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. The last state to cross before returning to California.     Our journey has come almost full circle from California back to California. We are spending our last days on the road in Nevada, trying to linger a bit before the return to California. Our originally planned date to be back to Colfax was October 27, next Tuesday, but we are near Austin tonight (Wednesday, October 21), a destination we have reached in one day from our Colfax home in the past, so doubt we'll stay on the road for another week. Also the long range forecast calls for snow at Tahoe on Sunday, and we definitely don't want to navigate mountain passes in the snow with LesThora. In the meantime we are enjoying these last days in Nevada.     After leaving the Bryce Canyon area last Tuesday, October 13, we took the long way to head toward the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We wanted to see the Vermillion Cliffs area of Grand Staircase-Escalante Nat...