Camping Day Five – Elko, NV

We actually had a pretty good drive today, albeit not as scenic as the past few days. One of the most interesting things we saw today along Interstate 80 was the Morton Salt Facility and the famous Bonneville Salt Flats before we left Utah.

Here in Nevada, along I-80, the scenery was interesting with broad valleys and mountains typical of the Great Basin Area. We had some minor gusty winds along the way and when arriving in Elko, we had a cloudburst from a thunderstorm in progress.

Damsel and I parked the RV at a Smith’s Supermarket and went inside just before the cloudburst. When we emerged from the store, the ground was wet but it had stopped raining.

At the campground, the showers were intermittent enough that I didn’t have to connect the shore power, cable and city water in the rain. Note the front wheels in the image above are again off the ground due to the slope of our campsite. We saw other class A RVs in the park with the same situation.

Tomorrow, we have more I-80 traveling west, ultimately arriving in Fernley, NV, which is a small mountain town southeast of Reno. The forecast for our journey is for partly sunny skies and a slight chance of rain. It should be a nice trip.