Today was an all-day Lake Mead day. We started with a boat rental at Callville Bay marina a half hour drive from our campsite.  We selected a 13 person pontoon boat from the nearly-deserted marina – despite the fact that apparently the lake is up over 30 feet in the last two years, business everywhere…

We started the day in Death Valley, the hottest place in the US/North America/Something like that, and headed to Lake Mead, clearly a close second like 98 degrees F.  One more stop at a Walmart in Pahrump, Nevada – where we escaped the taxes of California and Diesel dropped from $5.25 a gallon or so…

Today was the morning of our second day at Lake Isabella/Kern River KOA – as planned we drove to Death Valley for our next two-day stop, with a planned side trip to Saline Valley Warm Springs .  The reviews on this spring mentioned that the road was rough – you needed a 4WD, high clearance…

After breakfast, we left for our first adventure of the day – the Remington Hot Springs.  While this website indicates the top pool was 106, Scott’s calibrated hot tub temperature gauge said maybe 99-100.  The path seemed longer than 300 feet, and Scott’s knees complained that it was steep.  But the soak went well, the…

Our trip actually started yesterday – Thursday the 9th.  Scott flew into San Diego on Wednesday the 8th from the Offshore Technology Conference, and stayed at hotel near the VideoRay office until Tom arrived the next day.  We had stored the RV since our last trip at a campground near the one we stayed at…