Carson City, Nevada: Railbikes
September 22, 2021 The Virginia and Truckee Railroad offers a railbike excursion into the Carson River Canyon from its Carson City, Nevada depot. We thought it would be a unique way to celebrate Jane’s birthday.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
September 16-20, 2021 Jane was back-and-forth about whether to attend her 50th (plus one) high school reunion but decided to go. The trip ended up being full of family, friends, and fun. Dave stayed in Reno with the cat. Among Dave’s geocaching goals is completing his Jasmer challenge: Finding a Read more…
From Lakeview, OR to Reno, NV
September 15, 2021 The northbound traffic on Highway 395 as we were heading south from Lakeview, Oregon to Reno, Nevada made us wonder if we should turn around and follow the fun. The quality’s not great (we were in motion and the windshield had picked up some bugs), but we Read more…
Three State Border Monument: California, Nevada, and Oregon
September 13, 2021 California, Nevada and Oregon meet about a mile off a dirt road, across a stream and up a hill. There’s a monument there and several geocaches. Need we say more about our motivation?
Horsefly Mountain Fire Lookout
September 12, 2021 Several geocaches in the Lakeview area had never been found. We set out to find one near the fire lookout tower on Horsefly Mountain about 50 miles west of Lakeview. We were grateful for the Jeep because in this case getting there was not part of the Read more…
Oregon Sunstones
September 11, 2021 Sunstones are a calcium-rich variety of labradorite. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) allows for the non-commercial collection of sunstones from its property in the Rabbit Basin about two hours and seemingly hundreds of miles of dirt roads from Lakeview, Oregon. We had to go.
Abert Rim near Lakeview, Oregon
September 11, 2021 The young woman at the drive-through coffee stand said we shouldn’t miss Abert Rim so we drove north on Highway 395 to see what she was talking about. The Rim is a fault scarp formed when lava several thousand feet thick covered the land broke into huge Read more…
Lakeview, OR: Perpetual Geyser
September 9, 2021 Some things don’t quite live up to the hype. A developer planned to build a sanitarium at the site of a hot springs near Lakeview, Oregon in 1923. While digging a water well, workers struck a geyser in three different locations, one of which “never let up”, Read more…
Lakeview, Oregon: Fires
September 8-9, 2021 The drive from Eugene to Lakeview was very smoky. We could see smoke rising as we settled in to our campground and learned that the Cougar Peak fire had started from an unknown cause September 7, the day before our arrival. Some roads into the area were Read more…