On the Road Again!

Hello there, my blog-following-friends!  We were “down” for a while, but after some map and soul searching, we decided that we needed to hit the road again and find out what the scuttlebutt about Death Valley was all about.

We got passes for the Carson Valley Swim Center and I’ve been taking the water aerobics classes while Gary has been lane swimming.  The water aerobics classes are not for sissies!  My sisters and I did a few in Palm Springs, but that was wussy stuff compared to these classes in Carson!  They also have this awesome “therapy pool” set to a lovely 85°!  After we swim, we spend at least 15 minutes in the therapy pool.  Oh yeah, I love being retired and having the luxury of doing an hour class and then follow it up relaxing in the therapy pool. Honestly, it just doesn’t get much better than that!  By the time we finish swimming and therapy pooling it, the morning is shot … but who cares … we’re retired!

Anyway, I digress, because we both were talking to people in the therapy pool who kept telling us that Death Valley is one of their favorite places (really???).  So that did it, with those recommendations and my itchiness to get back on the road, we made the decision to head down south back into California (eek!).

On the road again, driving down 395 (boy, have we seen that road a lot through the years), we stopped in Bishop, CA at Brown’s Town Campground for one night. 

Fall colors are everywhere along the 395 and they are absolutely, abundantly evident here in the campground.

This is a view from our campsite looking over the golf course towards the eastern Sierras.

Brown’s Town Campground was kind of cool.  They have this strip of “miniature” old western buildings that contain the laundry facilities, restrooms, and some building are just for historical reference.

We took off the next morning to venture into the renowned Death Valley National Park which you’ll start reading about in our next blog!

Isaiah 49:11&13 // "I will make all My mountains a road, and My highways will be raised up … Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people and will have compassion on His afflicted.