This morning we stopped at Lowes for some last minute hardware. If you ever go shopping with kids, ditch ’em at the lighting display, they won’t notice for some time :

Our grocery bill at Smith’s was so large today that it tripped anti-fraud protections on both of our credit cards. Grrr!

We drove through Death Valley where we dumped tanks next to the visitor center. It was 105 degrees in the shade.

We continued out of Death Valley over Townes pass, our first real test of the new truck and RV. We climbed the 5000 feet of vertical at about 50 miles an hour, not bad I thought. We then continued down into the Panamint Sink and up another dicey climb to the Darrin Plateau, where we stopped on BLM land near the turnoff for Darwin. We’re at 5200 feet here, so it should be quite a bit cooler here than it was in Las Vegas.

Good Shabbos from the foothills of the Eastern Sierra! See the trip map for today’s route.

We once again left our RV at Camping World and drove over to my parent’s house.

B tears down a broken hard drive:

After another day of cleaning, we took the RV back to storage.  Here the old RV says goodbye to my parent’s house:

We picked up our RV.  Camping World refused to replace the inverter they destroyed, first blaming me for the issue and then suggesting I lie to the inverter manufacturer, say it spontaneously broke, and ask for a new one under warranty.

Sleazy.

Good Shabbos from BLM land just south of Las Vegas!