Arrived safely at the Nevada Treasure RV Park in Pahrump, Nevada quite late yesterday, and we scrambled to get set up before dark.  It had been a long difficult drive from Cottonwood, Arizona, with strong side winds and mountain roads with long climbs and descents.  I am tiring of dust, wind, and mountain roads.

We had a mishap along the way.  We stopped for fuel in Kingman, Arizona (home town of Andy Divine).  The Jeep did not make the turn (Betty thought it would and gave the go-ahead).  The result was a bent right front fender that jams the passenger door shut.  We had to disconnect the Jeep from the motorhome, move the motorhome and Jeep incrementally to loosen things, pull the Jeep free from the post, move both motorhome and Jeep to a new staging area, reconnect everything, and test out the combination again to be sure that we could continue to travel in tandem.  Thank God it all still worked well.

A friend of Betty's in Pahrump is a mechanic, and we hope he can help us at least get the door to open so that the car is usable until we can get home to the Jeep place for full repair.

This RV park is very crowded.  Never seen such a sardine can park before (and hope not to again).  No pull-through slots; only back in slots with little space to maneuver.  It is adjacent to Death Valley.  Needless to say it is very hot here in August.  (Who thought this up?).  Death Valley National Park is first on the agenda with an air conditioned bus ride through on the 29th.  Working on the motorhome outside is still a new experience in dry heat.  Today the forecast temperature range is 119-122 degrees.

The very cramped Nevada Treasure RV Park near Death Valley

This morning we slept in late, even though we had planned to try to find a church here to attend, but we have managed to exhaust ourselves getting out here to the point that we could not drag ourselves out of bed early enough.  We always said this trip would be an education, and it has been, body and soul.

One of the key ironies of this trip thus far is that we took this trip to exercise our intention to be away from Florida in the summer to escape the heat, humidity, and hurricanes.  OK on the third count, but we have had humidity in many places and heat everywhere.  The air conditioners work overtime, and even fans are running inside the motorhome to stay comfortable.

Wi-Fi out west continues to be terrible.  Takes a lot of time and trouble to accomplish anything on the web.

In mid-afternoon Betty's friends who live here in Pahrump stopped by our motorhome.  They came bearing a gift, a cake similar to angel food but with fresh fruit pieces and pudding covering it.  It might be called a fruit custard cake.  Very good!  We had a good visit exchanging memories.  Eddie, Ed and Lynn Switzer's son, promised to come home from work early tomorrow to work on our Jeep to enable the passenger door to open.  This will allow us to use the Jeep on our trip and have a complete fix done when we return to St Augustine.  Eddie is a mechanic with experience in these things.  Lynn will be coming by to take us to see a local winery and restaurant where we shall have lunch.  Then she will coordinate with us getting the Jeep to Eddie's home.  We have plenty of spare time yet, since the only item on the tour agenda tomorrow is a 3 pm orientation, then Tuesday we leave the motorhomes parked while we take a bus tour of Death Valley National Park.  The working out of all these things is truly an example of God's providential care.