Sunday - Mazie wanted to go back to the bakery for breakfast so that's how we started our morning. Again, Joe and I split a breakfast sandwich, and a pastry. And I didn't buy anything else. So we got out of town only buying 2 pastries (not to mention the free samples, but they don't count). Mazie stocked up a little, though. It was 52 degrees when we got up this morning. We de-camped, with Joe resuming his normal RV activity of washing the windshield. We ran into a swarm of bees or bugs the other day, and he said they were like glue on the windshield. He worked on it for 20-30 minutes, and he said he worked up a sweat.
We fueled at the edge of town ($3.099, it went up 10 cents overnight), then we were on our way, at 9:45. Up Hwy 395 all day, up and down the mountains, always in sight of some snow, and the wind slammed into us all day long. We saw clouds forming ahead of us, and sure enough, we ran into some light rain. Then some snow.
We passed several pretty mountain lakes today, the first large one was Mono Lake.
We stopped for a lunch break at Bridgeport. Gas here was $4.39
The clouds were pretty threatening, and before too long, we were driving through snow flurries. Joe jokingly had asked Mazie when we started out this morning if she thought it would snow. We were quite surprised when it did. We were above 8,000 feet by now. Joe finally turned the heater on, under protest, but it got down to 42 degrees. It was pretty foggy in the mountains but the highway stayed clear, and none of the snow stuck.
We drove next to this raging river or creek for many miles. The snow melt must be pouring off these mountains because this was no babbling brook.
As we neared the California/Nevada border, we came upon another large, pretty lake, Topaz Lake. We assume our rushing river dumps into this lake, it looked like it was full.
We crossed the Nevada State Line at 12:52, and shortly after that we came upon a large burn-out area. Looked like it had been a few years ago, but not much recovery.
As we came through Gardnerville, we noticed the price of gas had dropped to $2.61. We drove on to our campground in Carson City, arriving about 2:15. The sun was shining, but it was really windy, as it had been all day. It was 66 degrees when we stopped for the day.
Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will do some exploring around Carson City and maybe Virginia City. Weather forecast for tonight is a low of 44, but tomorrow's high is only predicted for 58 and tomorrow night's low is supposed to be 36. I'm going to dig out another blanket tonight, and we will need to turn the furnace on instead of the air conditioning. Seems like it is always either too hot or too cold!
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