Blogs from Carson City, Nevada, United States, North America

AN INDIAN FOR BREAKFAST Silver mining in the Comstock Lode at Virginia City was booming by 1859, but it came at a dear cost to the Paiutes living nearby. Traditional grazing lands were over run, trees that supplied pine nuts for their sustenance were cut down for lumber, wild game animals disappeared, Indian livestock was stolen, and personal abuses were suffered. Depredations were also visited upon the white community. By the spring of 1860 smoldering resentment led to a gathering of the tribes at Pyramid Lake for talk of war. During the war council two young Paiute girls fell into the clutches of ruthless white men and were being held captive at Williams Trading Post on the Carson River. It was a notorious hellhole. During the course of a horse trade gone ... read more

Day 30: Carson City, NC A day of rest! Slept late, ate a huge breakfast bacon, eggs, and grits. Charlie & Kerry went to visit with Kerry's cousins that live in Gardnerville, NV (just south of Carson City). We'll provision at Walmart when they get back from their visit in preparation to cross NV, visit Great Basin NP, Cedar Breaks NM, and both rims of the Grand Canyon by Monday next week. Might have to take advantage of the hot tub available here in the RV Part.... read more

Monday, 28 May It was 33 degrees this morning at 6, but had warmed into the upper 40’s by the time we left the campground. The north road into Crater Lake National Park is closed due to heavy snow cover, so we went around to the west and up to the south entrance. As the elevation rose, so did the depth of the snow drifts along the sides of the roads and in the woods. Inside the park you could only see the roof of the Visitor Center and the Administration Building. The parking lot was mostly cleared, but the drifts were well over the tops of the cars. We drove up to the Rim Lodge and to Discovery Point and took pictures of the magnificent lake and surrounding mountains. There was only 1 mile of ... read more

Well, we arrived home on Sunday evening happy to be home again. The rest of our trip from Butte included picking up the sweet little puppies abd spending three days with Rich's Mom and Dad in Dyer. Our mountains here look smaller! Thank you all for reading our blogs and travelling with us. We'll probably add one more as a summary later on. Nancy and Rich... read more

We drove to Carson Valley today- We had lunch at the park in Fallon, Nevada and then we drove to the Carson Valley RV Resort. We had Donna's friend Ridgely come to our camper for dinner-Donna made a fabulous dinner tonight. After dinner we watched the Elvis impersonators drop down from the sky-they are doing a show tonight at the Carson Valley casino !!... read more