The campground is Cherry Hill, Fruit Heights is about 20 miles north of downtown Salt Lake City Utah. Drove here on Friday from Ely Nevada. This is our 10 th State since leaving Georgia May 21.

Spent Saturday visiting Temple Square, the Bee House (home and office of Brigham Young), and the Red Butte Gardens. Learned some things about the Mormon Faith, and saw some beautiful gardens.

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See all the photos in the Salt Lake City, Uath Gallery

Rained all night Saturday. Weather has been cool. We’ve been using the heater more than the AC. Haven’t turned the AC on since we were in Memphis.

Short drive today from Eureka to Ely NV. Stopped at a KOA. Nice campground but had problems with the sewer connections, and the wireless internet connection.

Got in early, and spent the day sight seeing. Tried to see the train Museum, but it’s kind of a different set up, and we didn’t see much there. The historic museum downtown is more interesting. Also stopped in at the Visitor Information Center. Had a good conversation with the lady that runs the place, and we learned a lot.

Most fun was driving out to the Garnet Hill prospecting area run by the Bureau of Land Management. Spent a couple of hours wandering around the hill looking at the ground for rocks. found some nice pieces of raw garnet.

Left Zepher Cove this morning. Planned to make it across “The Loneliest Highway in America” US 50 to Ely Nevada. We only got as far as Eureka which is about 2/3 of the way to Ely. Stayed at a small campground right along the highway. You can see the photo’s in the Eureka Ely Gallery.

US 50 really is the lonliest highway in America. There is even a trip ticket that you can complete and the Govenor of Nevada will send you a certificate for surviving the trip. There’s nothing there but beautiful mountains, and great high plains on that route. If you love great scenery you should really take the trip at least once in your lifetime. Just be sure you have a full gas tank, and plenty of water before you leave Carson City east bound or Ely westbound. As you cross some of the high plains, you can see for 20 miles in every direction. There are times when there is no other vehicle of any kind in site in either direction.

Finally got out of Manteca today. Almost thought we were going to put down roots. Drove up US 50 to Lake Tahoe. Drove through South Lake Tahoe, and Stateline Nevada. Found a beautiful site at Zepher Cove.

We spent the afternoon driving around the lake. Had diner in the historic lodge at Zepher Cove that was built in the mid 1800’s. After diner we drove across the pass to Carson City, and did a quick look around. Decided we did well to land at Zepher Cove.

Took some more interesting photos. Uploaded them to the Tahoe Gallery on the web site.

Reluctantly left Yosemite friday morning. Had a hair raising experience driving down CA highway 120 to Manteca. Manteca is in the San Juaquin (Central Valley) between Sacramento and Fresno. If anyone had told Richard that he would enjoy spending 4 days in Manteca when he was growing up, he would have thought they were nuts.

Found a nice campground called French Camp RV. Felt like poor relatives with the Northern California Monaco Owners Club meeting there over the weekend.

We only planned to spend 3 days relaxing, catching up on house work, and doing some shopping. But, we ended up staying over Monday to get refills for some of Karen’s prescriptions at the local Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy.