Moved in

We’ve settled into our temporary residence in Henderson to hunker down and wait until some more reassuring developments occur in this pandemic. We thought we would head out a bit and see what it was like with everything being closed down here. We had heard in the news that the Grand Canyon of Arizona would be open for visitors for this Memorial Day weekend. However, we learned first hand that the Grand Canyon of Nevada was still closed. We saw very few cars on the Las Vegas Strip, and even fewer pedestrians!

Since we were out and about, we decided to check out one of our favorite state parks in the area, Valley of Fire. We assumed it might not be too busy, but we were wrong. When we got to the western entrance there was a line of at least a dozen cars waiting to get in. Every parking area was packed, and the one time we did get out of our car, the only two masks we could see were the ones on our own faces. There was not much social distancing going on, and the average age of folks we saw could easily be potential non-symptomatic types.

So, we decided to not hang around too much and headed for the road along the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The traffic was much lighter, and we managed to find an empty parking lot with an empty picnic table near a really cool spring. Despite the heat there was plenty of water in the spring, which was lined on both sides by lush green palm trees and reeds. We had a nice, pleasant and isolated picnic lunch before we headed back. Kona was beside himself being able to get out and smell some unknown smells.

We put Colectiva II in storage for now, which was bitter sweet. Since we won’t likely be doing any traveling for a while, we will sign off on the blog for a bit.

We hope to be talking to you soon.