Shabbos was wonderful as expected.  It was really nice to spend the day with my parents.

This morning I went for a quick ride.  It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve been on the bike, the longest hiatus from riding in years.  And I felt really lousy when climbing the hills, as if I hadn’t been on the bike for 2 weeks.  I could tell I was out of place, as all the joggers and cyclists I encountered had a skin tone that, were it a crayon, would be called “edge of pie crust”.  Anyway, here’s the ride:

I could see downtown Las Vegas in the distance:

I rode to the end of Horizon Ridge Boulevard and back:

It was 109 degrees on Shabbos, and it was similarly hot today.  After having a third old tire replaced on the RV and stopping at Lowe’s, we headed North towards Yosemite.  We stopped for lunch at the ghost town of Rhyolite, just a few miles East of Death Valley:

The famous bottle house, built around the turn of the last century out of bottles and mortar, is well preserved:

It was really hard to turn our backs on Death Valley, but we will be back in a couple months when it’s cooler.  We continued North to Tonopah, where we’re staying in the Banc Club Casino parking lot.  The drive was windy and wet with a good bit of lightning as well.  Thankfully, it’s much cooler here than in Las Vegas, it’s probably in the mid-60s right now.  Tomorrow we will drive into Yosemite!

We drove about 240 miles today.   See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.