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Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada-Part 1

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Valley of Fire in Nevada-Part 1

We drove from Lake Mead to Utah on Wednesday, but before we did that we spent a couple of days exploring Valley of Fire state park in Nevada.

This place is a photographers paradise, and now that I have a new camera, Al inherited my old one and he’s not bored waiting for me anymore. Which is great for both of us. We saw and photographed different things each day, taking a bazillion photos. So, I will break everything up into several posts. These images are from Sunday evening. Late afternoon, early evening is the very best time to be in the Valley of Fire. The light on the red rocks is simply amazing. We parked, and just started walking all around the rock formations.

Valley of Fire state park in nevada

There are several formations that look like waves. They just may be my favorite.

Valley of Fire state park in nevada

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Boondocking at Lake Mead

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Boondocking at Lake Mead

When we are going between Arizona, and Utah we will sometimes stay in the Lake Mead National Recreation area. Boondocking at Lake Mead, is not something we have done very much of however, until this year.

There are several different places to boondock near Lake Mead, and we have checked out a few of them. On Monday, we left the Las Vegas Bay CG were we had spent the night, and headed for Government wash. We hear about this spot a lot, and thought it sounded like a good place to spend a few days. It’s not far from Las Vegas Bay, and the road going in is paved. But when we got to the area were camping is allowed, we found it way more crowded than we like. We could see a few RV’s on the other side of the wash-water inlet, and decided to go there instead. Google maps is an essential part of any boondockers resources, and we could see there was indeed a road going to that area. It was a bumpy, washboard road, but we ended up in a spot like this.

Boondocking at Lake Mead

This is looking at government wash from the side we were on. See all the RV’s scattered around?

Boondocking at Lake Mead

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We’re on the move again

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We’re on the move again

After a month at the Imperial Dam LTVA, we’re on the move again. Last Friday we did the dentist trip to Algodones, Mexico. We both had cleanings, and the Dentist advised Al on the tooth that he was worried about. Crown probably next year, and since a crown is only $280 there, it won’t be that big of a deal.

Saturday morning we set off with the idea of going to Oatman, Az. again. My hope was, there might be new babies since we had found that one in the wild. We found a place to boondock that would be close to drive into Oatman the next day. The area around Oatman is pretty nice, big canyons, and lots of jagged mountains. We had rain almost all night on Saturday, and woke up to cloud covered canyon walls.

We're on the move again

cloudy desert canyon

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