Our Trip Home - 27 and 28 April 2016. Drive: Cathedral Gorge - Reno, Nevada

Wednesday  Cathedral Gorge --> Reno

      Travel day.  (360 miles)
     Overcast, but no wind when I got up but the forecast was for intermittent showers and snow at the higher elevations.  I decided to attach the second 28" jury-rigged windshield wiper as we are going to need both of them working today and until we get to an RV place.
     We were up, packed and left Cathedral Grove at 0855. Within minutes of leaving the campsite it started to rain. Not heavy, just a light intermittent rain that persisted all day long, changing to snow when we got above 5600 ft.

     Our route today would keep us on back roads which were not that populated. 

Section is called "Loneliest Road" and
it was pretty quiet, and high in elevation
but, basically pretty smooth 2 lane hwy.

It was also generally high in elevation. One section of the road is called "The Loneliest Road" on the Rand McNally map which we didn't notice until we were already committed to the route lol. 

     TJ stayed in the back reading for most of the day as there was not much to see on this path and not much traffic. There is a slight "shimmy" on the front end which comes and goes between 50 and 70 mph. We will have to get that checked out ASAP. 

Travel Route so far, not counting side trips to Monument Valley,
Arches National Park and Grand Canyon (South Rim)

   

  We had figured we could get a spot in Reno but when we arrived we found "No Vacancy" signs out which meant we had to scramble to find another RV spot that had a place..... Luckily "Shamrock RV" in Sparks (suburb of Reno) had available sites on their phone recording so we put that into the GPS and headed there. It was only about 10 minutes out of downtown and there was a site right at the front we could get in to, so we booked ourselves in (past 5:00 PM when the office closed) and settled in for the night. This park was convenient, but the pool was closed (still cold in the mornings) and the wifi was not very reliable.

Thursday, 28 April

     Today is a "cleaning day", so after making an appointment with the local Freightliner tomorrow to have 3 items looked at TJ & I hunted down an RV dealer in the hopes of finding a windshield wiper that would fit our RV.  Darlene was busy cleaning up the RV as we have a lot of dust and sand inside from the time at Page, Arizona.

      We found a place that had 32 inch wiper blades BUT they are 48 bucks each..... With the exchange that is close to 65 dollars each!  Decided that the 28 inch worked pretty well, so I replaced the driver side and kept the 28 inch as a spare.

      Next was a hand wash of the lower 1/2 of the outside of the motorhome, which took up the rest of my afternoon as driving thru the snow and rain causes the lower half to get dirty while the top receives little road dirt, it seems.

      Around 5:30 we decided to take a look at downtown and see if there were any good spots to eat.... Well, after Vegas, Reno seemed pretty small and quiet, heh heh.  After driving around and sightseeing, we went back for supper at the motorhome and shut it down for the night as we have to pack up and take the motorhome in for repairs tomorrow am.