Day 160

Lake Mead to Ash Springs, Nevada
Spent 5 days boondocking at Lake Mead. It was really nice to be able to see the lake, even though it was too low to spend much time down there. We went down one day and took a quick dip. Dinky was not impressed until he realized how cool it made him feel. Met a couple from Turkey and another from London. Took pictures for them with their phones so they could share the memories together. (We do a lot of this, and we always get a great reaction.)
Dinky Dawg celebrated his 4th birthday with a two mile hike. (Did I mention that this was about 5 minutes after I got out of bed and about an hour before my first cup of coffee) Seriously this is a daily occurrence, except we usually don’t go more that a mile or mile and a half, so who am I trying to kid about doing something special with him.
Took him for a walk this morning and was getting some pictures of the ducks in the lake when I looked up and saw a hawk circling around and getting closer to us. Hurried to Dinky and started waving my arms to scare him away. Bet I looked awful funny to the other campers.
Bristol had a great time rolling in the dirt. She spent time each night just having the time of her life in the dirt. Weird Cat. Of course we had to do some major cleaning before we left this morning because she tracked dirt everywhere.
We learned a new meaning to the idea of roughing it. Spaced buying ice and only had 2-6 gallon jugs of water, and only about a quarter tank of fresh water in our rig. But we survived. Even got to shower this morning. Ran out of water just as we started getting ready to go. Thank goodness that we have a portable ice maker, so we had enough ice for beverages.
Finally got to use Lee’s new generator. And yes, it is big enough to run the air conditioner, which is good since we both got sunburned when we went down to the water.
Stopped in Logandale, NV and washed the dust off the truck and trailer. They have a do it yourself bay big enough for RV’S. Gotta remember that.