MONDAY - We only drove a little over 100-miles today and dropped about 1400' in elevation, but our daytime high temps went from a comfortable 75°F to just short of 90°F.
We had a choice of where to stop for tonight, since our next reservtion doesn't begin until tomorrow. We could have spent the night in a Walmart parking lot in Susanville, a rest stop near Honey Lake or where we ended up. At a BLM dispersed camping site along Red Rock Road, still in California, but only 1-mile from the CA/NV state border.
All along the route today there was smoke, no fires to worry about, but lots of smoke.
Believe it or not, that big grassy field shows as a reservoir on Google Maps.
We are dropping down 1000' into Susanville where we are going to purchase gas for $5.19.
We've arrived at our FREE BLM campsite. It's nothing fancy, but we've got sun and solar.
I've even got 2 bars of AT&T service, thanks to a tower that's just out of frame of this photo.
Plus we've got these beautiful red rocks to look at out our dinette rear window.
Tomorrow we've got a short 70-mile drive to get to our next site, so we'll be hanging out here until around noon so we don't arrive too much before the official 2:00PM check-in time.
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