We left Milo McIver State Park around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday on our way to Kah-ne-Tah Resort (a place neither Bob nor I had ever been to). We drove in from US 26 across wild open range, through small towns showing the poverty of many Native Americans, to this "Las Vegas-style" resort. Kah-ne-tah's hot pools were lovely for a swim (particularly in the deep end where the kids were not swimming). The one negative factor was the distance to the bathrooms. I was not yet in the Travels with Snoopy mode and asking to have a site near the bathrooms. The RV area was all equipped with sanitary sewer hook-ups. The next morning we got up to drive to Page Springs Campground in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, stopping along the way at various helpful RV stores to try and replace the plastic cover for our fan. At one place we got the cover and Bob installed it. At another place we got advice and purchased a couple of items we had forgotten.
Page Springs C.G. is gorgeous, though buggy. We set up Snoopy, went for a hike to the top of the bluff (note the happy travellers).
While we ate dinner we saw five deer come down to drink at the spring and this big Great Horned Owl roost on a ledge in the rocks.
We headed south from Frenchglen to Winnemucca, NV, got onto I-80 for a short distance and then headed off into the basin and range country on US 50, billed as the loneliest road in America. In Austin, NV we turned east on US 50 and started going up and down over the basins and ranges. The basin and range country was created when the crust bulged up and thinned. As it sank, cracks were created, which are the steep sides of each range. It is gorgeous, wild, uninhabited country. We stopped at Spencer Hot Springs, about 10 miles off US 50. It involved a 5 mile drive on a dirt road to an old mining site and these wonderful hot springs, replete with a wooden deck, bench, and carpet to step out onto. The water was a perfect temperature and the view amazing and we were totally alone. Perfection.
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