March 1-15, 2017 Desert fun!

Due to the large number of photos (I already edited out over one-hundred to get it down to this number!) there won't be a lot of commentary.  The order is off on some because they were taken with four different cameras and it was too much trouble to properly sort them (Okay, I just don't have time, I'm too lazy, blah, blah, blah!).  Anyway I hope you enjoy them.

Working on the motor home here. Both of these switches have been broken for awhile (the plastic lever is gone) so I decided to replace them.

The fuel pump on the motor home.  I replaced this one.  It's kind of a booster pump used when the fuel tanks are far away from the engine.  Sometimes the main pump needs some help.

Fuel leak at the rear tank on the Ford camper van.  Maybe the fuel mileage will improve?

This is one of the places we camped off the beaten path.  It has a 4x4 trail going several miles down to the lake.

This is along the road next to our camp.  You can see both Stewarts Point and Echo Bay from here. (Of course you need binoculars!)

Same place as the photo above only looking the opposite direction.

Supper time!

These wild horses were waiting just outside the camp the first morning after our arrival.

A little later in the morning one posed for us on a nearby knoll.

Our camp was late getting the morning sun due to ...

... this guy being in the way!

More riding and hiking.

This little canyon goes over to the shoreline of Lake Mead.

 Break time!

Goofy time!

This was taken on the other side of the lake near Gold Butte.  Most of the photos following were taken in this area.

Now we're back to the earlier campsite.  These two photos were taken from our camp site using the highest setting on my camera's telephoto.  I think there are a couple of desert bighorns in there.

Same location a half-hour later.  Possibly same two sheep.

This is a rock "window" above the first camp site.

That's our camp viewed through the "window."

Echo Bay viewed from the camp.

Stewarts Point viewed from camp.

Taken from the same location as the photo above only with less magnification.

We saw holes like this drilled into choke points in the wash we hiked in.  Don't have a clue why or for what purpose!

The final photos are from explorations around the camp near Gold Butte.

February 15-28, 2017 Life in the desert.

Another post .... I'm way behind (right, I'm doing a post on late Feb. on June 4!) so there won't be a lot of commentary on the photos ... sorry!

This is a public rifle range a few miles outside of Overton, NV.  Nothing fancy, just a place to shoot.  We took the four-wheelers and my "modern" inline muzzle loading rifle out for some fun and testing.

The target is out there about 100 yards.

I'm shooting some different loads (trying different bullet/sabot combinations and two kinds of propellant) to check for point of impact of the different combinations and accuracy.  I used to look through binoculars or a spotting scope but now I take a photo after every shot and keep a notebook for what combinations were used for that shot.  It works much better for me.  It helps to have a good telephoto lens (I do).  This one is about 50X.  That's three, three-shot "groups."  

Meanwhile Scott was busy gathering up stuff for his own projects.

This is a "robot" he put together out of range trash.  Kind of makes you think people should be more diligent about picking up after themselves.

We put quite a few miles on 4-wheelers.  I believe this (and the next two photos) was a run on up the canyon we were in while shooting.

This is on Morman Mesa outside of Overton.

Our favorite hot spring.

Scott entertaining himself by climbing on the tailgate of the trailer.

We just got this bike trailer.  I had assembled it and I'm now putting the hitch on my bike.

Scott is playing in the box!

Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles!  I spent most of my life working on cars professionally and I hate working on our own.  But sometimes it can't be avoided.  This is the transmission tag on our camper van.  The vacuum modulator was leaking and having the transmission tag information makes it much easier to get the right part for it.

Yuch!  The big motor home died upon reaching our camping area.  I thought it was the fuel pump so we had a friend tow it on over to our camp site.  Turned out it wasn't the fuel pump but a faulty gas gauge that was causing problems. (It was out of gas!)

We took the camper van up to a new area to scout out a new camping spot.  We needed to see if the road was good enough to get back there with our trailer hauling the 4-wheelers. (It was!)

This is another of our favorite spots.  It's called "Redstone" and while it was named after the sandstone rock formations there are a lot of other types of rocks there too.

Scott loves climbing around on the rocks and we're early enough in the season that the snakes are still hibernating.

It's a beautiful and fun place to play in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Lake mead shoreline.  The water is up a few feet from last year.

More four-wheeling with a friend.

Everyone has had a lot of problems with mice this year.  We had one that actually chewed through the lid on the peanut butter jar.  We used the peanut butter for bait and caught him the next night.

Scott in church during the worship service.

This is something we don't get to see in Montana in February!  Kind of hard to plant a garden when the snow's four-feet deep.

Gotta love things you find on the internet!  An ad on how to block ads!

One of the things we like most in this area are the spectacular sunsets and sunrises!