Aimed the truck for Tahoe and drove drove drove across western Colorado and across the entire state of Utah. Back into the desert, temporarily. Made it to Great Basin National Park in Nevada, and parked it for the night. Next morning explored Lehman Cave before hitting the road for Tahoe. The cave was pretty cool, with all kinds of ‘decorations’ like popcorn, spaghetti, curtains, and shields (which look like a pizza suspended in air with cheese dripping down). Apparently Lehman, the first whitey to discover the cave in the 1880s, opened the cave for tours back then, and offered people a candle lantern, rescue if they didn’t reappear within 24 hours, and you could take a souvenir. The cave definitely had a lot of stalactites, etc broken off, that people had taken home with them.
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