It was time to do laundry and take showers so we figured we would try an RV park since they all have these things included in your nightly rate. Well the shower is included, the laundry is coin operated but at least it is located in the park. And of course the RV parks are expensive because they have to maintain all these services, this one is $35 for the night. RV parks always look like parking lots to me and I am turned off to them, but chores need to be done so we are giving it a try. Leaving Great Basin National Park everything seems very far away. It really is in the middle of nowhere. We have discovered that driving the van can be much more tiring than driving a normal car. Since it is longer than a car you really have to plan lane changes ahead of time and since it takes a little while to get going you have to have a decent gap when pulling out. So we have been swapping off driving every couple hours or so and we try not to drive more than about 300 miles a day. After all, there is no hurry, why kill ourselves?
The closest place to stop turned out to be the town of Wells, Nevada, a very small town next to the highway. We are staying at the Angel Lake RV Park. RV parks have full hookups – electric, water, sewer, this one also has cable TV hookup. We did plug the van in to the power source but discovered that 1) we do not have the correct hose to plug into the water source for a constant connection and 2) we did not realize that we would need our own coax cable to plug in the cable TV. If we had known we would have saved one from the apartment. So we are still working off the water in our 30 gallon fresh water tank. We have been using it for washing hands, brushing teeth, washing dishes and there is still quite a bit left. We did however dump our grey water when we were in Great Basin National Park because they had a dump station. Tim has done the dumping of the grey water once before so this was the second time for him, first time I have seen it done. So here’s the thing, we have a 30 gallon tank of fresh water and we have two grey water tanks, 10 gallons each, one for the sink and one for the shower. We have only been using the sink, not the shower, so the 10 gallon tank was filling up and had to be dumped but we still have plenty of fresh water.
Washers at the RV park were $2 each, dryers $1.75 for 45 mins. We got the quarters from the office and that all worked fine. Showers were fine, clean enough. It is finally cool, rainy and in the 50s at 10 PM.
Leaving Wells and heading north we decide to stop in Twin Falls Idaho for lunch at Shoshone Falls Park. Amazing waterfalls and nice grassy area with picnic tables.
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