Worldwide Wanderers

Beatty, NV has resident donkeys. Someone had put out some food for them. When we were checking out of the hotel, I believe that we had the car loaded, but Travis was trying to get in the car and I heading to the office to check out and then went back to the room for something. I was worried for both us.  On the way out, we headed south past Amargosa Opera House; the tall part on the right was the opera house and to the left is now the motel. Though it did not look open as a motel now either.  Then we went on to Mt. Charleston. A co-worker recommended this park. It was very pretty, though we were completely unprepared for the cold after visiting Death Valley. We climbed higher in elevation, and it got colder and colder. A light snow began to fall. We've got snow.  This area had a few small trails that we walked around.  Then we went to the visitor center to ask about a hike that I had read about and planned to a waterfall (Mary Jane Falls). It was not open, still clos...

March 16, 2022   We flew into Las Vegas and rented a car with a work discount at Avis. The bus to the rental car lot had a long line with no buses coming, but finally multiple came to shorten the line. Avis in Vegas was a lot less pleasant experience than our Avis rental in Bozeman, MT (where they were awesome!) -- they did not have the car size that we reserved, so pushed many upsells, allowed only one driver, and then more upsell pushed. They found us a size bigger (with California gas prices, we were not excited about too big) and noted to wait in the garage where they would bring it by the Avis #1 club area (whatever they call their club) while they prepared it. We knew the color, make, model, and license plate, but no one drove a car to this area. I saw a gray car drive into another area so went to check the plate. It was the right car, so went back to get Travis. Loaded our luggage and to show our id and contract on the way out. We stopped in Vegas for grocery shopping and th...