Trip Home Day 2 Friday May 8

Kingman to Fallon   525 miles.  Yikes !

    Hwy 93 from Kingman to Vegas.  Easy drive, straight road northeast until you come to the Colorado River.  Great big valley/canyon.  The Colorado River at the bottom.  Eventually, the highway crosses the river.  Years ago the highway crossed the river by driving across the Hoover Dam.  Trucks, cars, RVs.   The drive was slow but the views were amazing.  It was a very cool experience.    9/11 changed all that .  The security was ramped up, vehicle inspections, etc.
    An alternative was built.  A bridge.  A huge bridge.  A huge construction project.  An engineering feat.  In the end the bridge completely made the dam disappear.  Now vehicles whizz across the bridge without even a glimpse of the dam.  Sad but efficient.
    After the bridge, Henderson, then Las Vegas.  Driving through the city takes about an hour.  4 sometimes 5 lanes of moving traffic.  Not right now.  With the current situation and the stay at home orders have changed.  Right now, Las Vegas is closed.  No casinos, no Tourists.  No tourists, no traffic.  It was a breeze driving through town.  ( Actually, Phoenix was that way as well.)
    After Vegas, the highway winds through the desert land that is Nevada.  Miles and miles of miles and miles.  About 50 miles north, the highway passes an exit  "Mercury- no services".  Mercury was where the scientists lived that worked on the Atom bomb testing area just north.   We kept the windows rolled up as we passed by.
    We arrived at Whiskey Flats RV Park in Hawthorne, Nv  about 5pm but they got the dates wrong.  No spaces available, so we were forced to drive another 70 miles to Fallon.  The Fallon Country Store and RV Park is fairly new.  It was quite nice when it was opened, but by the looks of it, the construction was sub-par.  The roads and RV pads were cracked and broken and like most rv parks, mostly filled with long-term residents.  But our site was adequate and we needed to stop.