Creech AFB started testing remotely piloted aircraft back in 1996!

Now it houses the 432nd Wing and 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, with a total workforce of 3000 people!

More beautiful Nevada mountains!

Next, we passed the very small town of Mercury. Most folks will never see this small town, because it belongs to the Nevada National Security Site, and you need special clearance to get in the gate!

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In my efforts to find out more about this area, I found they do give tours of the site once a month. The tour bus leaves from Las Vegas, and you are not allowed to take cameras or cell phones on the bus with you!

Among other things, this area was once used by the government to test nuclear weapons. Now it is used for the National Stockpile. The road just seems to go on forever, off into oblivion. You can see more of the area on Google Maps. We found this area very interesting!

More beautiful Nevada mountains!

Each and every one is different, with different features and different colors! It's just amazing to see so many variations in such close proximity to each other!

Next we came across the Area 51 Alien Center in Amargosa Valley! Just a gift shop really, with some pretty crazy gifts, but still interesting!

And right next to the Alien 51 Center is the Alien Cathouse Brothel! Permanently closed... of course. But very interesting that such pleasures existed up until fairly recently!

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Looks like they have been doing some mining on this mountain! Wow! What an amazing maroon color! I wonder what they are mining for?

I think this mountain covers pretty much every color that a mountain can possibly be!

You can almost look at this mountain and see that it came out of the earth sideways!

We drove thru the small town of Beatty. Here the Amargosa River comes up to the surface for just a few miles, then goes back underground!

And just north of Beatty, another extinct Brothel called Angel's Ladies. LOL. 

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More colorful mountains! Just beautiful!

Our first Wild Burro sighting! We were so excited!

Once we got closer to Goldfield, we started seeing hundreds of Joshua Trees! They were everywhere! And just a couple miles north of Goldfield, they disappeared again!

They have been mining this mountain too! It has road tracks all over it! Good Lord! LOL. 

We finally made it to Tonopah! Whew! What should have taken us 6.5 hours, ended up taking us 9.5 hours. What a long day! And our very first true Boondocking spot! Not the greatest place, but certainly do-able!

When we got to Tonopah, Ed started working on his night sky photography, and took this awesome shot of the Moon over the mountain we were camping in front of, with Saturn off to the right!

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Just outside of Parker AZ, we drove past this old train trestle bridge! After that, we crossed into California for awhile!

Sometimes the roads are flat, and just seem to go on forever!

And sometimes the roads in the desert follow the natural curve of the land, so you have this! LOL.

We saw some awesome colorful mountains!

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These mountains came in layers, one behind the other!

We had to pull off the side of the road so I could pee!

But what an awesome place to stop! The desert scenery was just beautiful!

Passed by this pretty fancy rest area!

We stopped in Searchlight NV around 11:30AM to get gas, and figured we'd best get something to eat too! The Colton Mine struck silver in 1897 in this area!

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We watched this motorhome pull in with a pontoon boat about as big as his rig, but he backed it into that parking spot like he'd been doing it all his life!

We spotted our first Joshua Tree about a half hour south of Las Vegas!

At first, I thought what we were seeing in the distance was a lake.

But it ended up being a huge solar array!

Some of the Nevada Casinos seem to be out in the middle of nowhere. There wasn't any kind of town around this one at all!

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We got to Las Vegas shortly after 1PM. Here you can see the newer casinos on Las Vegas Blvd.

We drove an outer loop around the city, and passed by the Fiesta Henderson Hotel and Casino!

Ed and I had been to Las Vegas a few times before, so we had no interest in stopping. Here is another view of the downtown buildings, as we got closer.

And here's the best shot I could get of the older, original downtown casinos!

Well north of Las Vegas, we spotted this fancy hacienda in the middle of a huge ranch!

This mountain must be very tall, since it's just covered in snow!

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Found this plant in the campground, but I haven't been able to identify it. Anybody out there know what this is?

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The Palo Verde tree at our campsite has started blooming like crazy!

The Palo Verde's flowers are just beautiful!

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Thursday, April 23, 2020 -- Ed went into town to do laundry and saw this truck at the laundromat. Turns out it belongs to the laundromat owner!

Ed had a very interesting story to share when he got home that day! He had gone into the supermarket next to the laundromat to get change for the machines, and overheard a guy asking the clerk if he had found any cigarettes outside. The clerk responded that he hadn't. When Ed left the store, the man was outside, and he asked Ed if he had a cigarette he could bum. Ed replied that he didn't. When Ed went to the laundromat, the owner was there trying to fix a water line outside. He asked for Ed's help with a few minor things, and then offered Ed $20 for helping him. Ed refused the money, but the man insisted and dropped it down to $10, which Ed accepted. The man said if he didn't want the money, then just pay it forward to someone else. Ed thought about the man looking for cigarettes, went into the store and bought a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, and took them outside to the man, who was still hanging around outside. Our Lord does work in mysterious ways!!

​Here's another view of the awesome antique truck!

Friday, April 24, 2020 -- Another Quail stopped by our campsite for a quick visit!

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Ed found another great cookbook in the campground's book exchange. Modern Barbeque Cooking by Ed Bell. This book was published in the 1960's, but Mr. Bell really knew his stuff, and most of his tips can still be applied to charcoal cooking today!

Saturday, April 25, 2020 -- We decided to take advantage of our wonderful gravel site and gave General another bath before we headed out the next day!

Our last sunset in Bouse, with the waning moon and one of the planets! 

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He was pretty big, maybe about 4 inches long, and probably could have inflicted some serious pain! But he was dead. Not quite sure what killed him. But we were feeling very blessed that we didn't meet him while he was still alive!

​What happened next is still a bit of a blur. Ed started to get abdominal pain in the afternoon. Kind of came and went, and we were unclear exactly what was causing the problem.

The next day, Ed was still getting abdominal pain, a little worse than the previous day. But still unclear what the problem was. In the afternoon, he decided he wanted to go to the hospital, so we drove all the way to Parker. But when he saw the tents outside the entrance, because of CoVid-19, he decided he didn't want to go in, so we drove back home.

On Thursday, the pain worsened again, and it finally became clear he was having trouble with his Gallbladder, but by this time, it had spread to his Pancreas as well. The standard remedy for this would have been Marshmallow Root, to add mucilage to help pass the offending Gallstone. But we didn't have any, so I looked for a substitute, which was Okra water. We didn't have any Okra either, but I went to the store and was able to find some frozen. But by the time I was finally able to get some Okra water in him, he was in so much pain, he asked again to go to the hospital. So at 9:00 pm, we drove to Parker and got him admitted.

Because of CoVid-19, I was not able to go into the hospital with him, which was a first for us. I had always been right by his side. But this time, General and I went home alone, to sit and wait for a text or phone call from Ed to say how he was doing.

On Friday, he was released from the hospital around 5PM. They didn't want him staying any longer because of the chance of getting the virus. He was still in a little bit of pain, but never enough that he needed to take anything for it. And by the next day, he was almost as good as new!

They did an abdominal CT scan a couple hours after he was admitted to the hospital. It did not show any Gallstones, so the offending stone must have passed thru before he got his scan. They were totally confused what was causing all the pain. LOL. But the very nice nurse who did his discharge, was so kind to send him home with 2 masks, one for him and one for me! So at least now we had some masks to wear in public!

Sunday, April 19, 2020 -- The Bouse Community Park we were staying at actually had a book exchange! You could take whatever books you wanted, and leave whatever books you wanted to get rid of. Ed borrowed this book and took pictures of his favorite recipes!

Of course, this recipe would be my favorite!

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An awesome pink and purple sunset!

Monday, April 20, 2020 -- Ed was feeling very much better, and decided to go do some off-roading and take some pictures of the desert landscape. Of course, you know our truck is NOT a 4X4, but Ed is a very good driver, so I told him to have a great time! LOL. 

We just love the desert landscape!

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There are all kinds of mountains in this area. Here's a black mountain!

And here is a red mountain!

Here is a closeup of that same red mountain, with all its holes!

This mountain has a natural arch in it! Do you see it?

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Of course, Ed had been driving on OHV trails, and they kind of wind and curve all over the place!

This is where he stopped and turned around! LOL. It just looked like it might be a little much.

When Ed got back home, he was admiring the scratches down the side of the truck, while I noticed the dent in the bottom panel of the back door. I guess alot of wives would have been pissed about the damages, but to me, it just adds character and a story to our truck's history! 

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Bouse Community Park has water and electric sites for $10 per day. While it was getting hot in Arizona, it was still cold where we wanted to go, so we decided to hang out here for a few more days, where we could run the AC, and wait for it to warm up where we were going. 

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Since we had awesome crushed gravel at our site, we decided to give General a bath outside! 

We were visited by this lizard on the very first day! He was on the grate of our fire ring, and probably measured about 10 inches from head to tail!

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And we found some awesome rocks to add to our collection!

We were very surprised at the differences between Quartzsite and Bouse, even though the two towns are only 45 minutes apart. One major difference is that after you go over Quinn Pass toward Bouse, you no longer see Saguaro Cacti! Another difference is that in Quartzsite, we never saw Quail, but in Bouse, they were frequent visitors at the park!

We were also very surprised at the differences in the plants! Here is a Mesquite tree in bloom, while the ones in Quartzsite hadn't even started to bloom yet!

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And the Creosote bushes in Bouse are much farther along in blooming than their Quartzsite counterparts!

A clean and happy pupper is ready for bed!

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