Great San Francisco Trip 2013-Day 25-Great Basin

Day 25 Wednesday August 14, Sam Burrow's birthday
After several stops for sightseeing, food and gas in Fillmore, we headed across the Great Basin.  Bill tried to check in with our Condo Board's meeting, but the service was inadequate.  We were entering a stretch with no travel services for 83 miles.  Judy drove much of it, and we reached the Great Basin National Park in time for lunch.  This is Bill's 351st NPS site.  We drove up Wheeler Peak, and took a short walk.  Then Bill toured the Lehman Cave.  This park started as a National Monument for the Caves declared by Warren Harding in 1922.  Judy dislikes being in caves and chose to watch the movie and sit on the porch looking over the vast Basin before her.  The cave had all the usual cave items including shields, a variation on stalactites and stalagmites, which few caves have.  We spent the night at the Bo

rder Inn, where our room was in Utah and the adjoining restaurant and casino was in Nevada.  It was a very modest, but most adequate accommodation.  After six straight nights in the tent, Judy deserved a bed.  The motel was actually a string of double wide mobile homes connected together.  This is a desolate part of the world, but it has its own beauty.  We were aware that there is a haze in the beautiful blue sky, and Judy's asthma duly recorded it.