Pioche looked like a cool little town. Cathedral Gorge looked great! So close! I mean, really. With all that open area. Good thing you like Ed. Watch your back! 😉 Ram 👍🏼👍🏽
I grew up in pioche. The hill behind the gem theater is lime hill. The cross has been there ever since I can remember. It use to have power going to it. School projects had us go change light bulbs in it so we could light it up for Christmas.
What an interesting situationship. I always assumed that Nevada stood for "desolate and nothing to see because its all a desert" but to see so much variety with stone formations and general lay of the land is quite interesting. I figure with Colorado plateau terminating along the border of Utah and Nevada this is nature's last hurrah to peculiar sand stuff.
Once you get 100+ miles north of Vegas, the rest of Nevada is entirely different. It's the whole Basin & Range system that makes it so. Stretching all the way from Salt Lake City to the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin is a large terminal area, meaning that water flowing there never leaves the area. It's marked by many north/south oriented mountain ranges (some of which exceed 11,000'), each separated by broad, flat lowland desert valleys. Many of those mountain ranges are high enough to support an alpine ecosystem including aspen trees, tundra, bighorn sheep and mountain goats, ermines, etc., whereas the valleys are sandy, dusty sagebrush. In between each mountain range and valley is a piñon and juniper zone like what you see in this video. Then there are anomalies like the Ruby Lakes area, in the Ruby Valley just east of the Ruby Mountains near Elko that are a huge spring-fed wetland that supports all manner of migratory waterfowl. It's not at all what you'd expect if your sole exposure to Nevada is Las Vegas.
I have not ever seen Pioche is such a way that you have presented it. I like your report on your power system and it's making me think twice to upgrade to 800 ah of batteries as we haven't had a chance to give our 400 ah system a real test.
Pioche is very Interesting, quite a deadly history, that food looked really yummy, great onion rings, some great old towns, really liked the photo bomb at the end. lololol. travel safe
Marc you are a wonderful, professional filmmaker. Great video. Love all the old western towns, I've got to visit more of them. Enjoy your Grand Adventures.
Nicely done!! You always do such a good job of showing an area's history and details most rv'ers would like to know....gotta say, we have a nice solar set up, but yours is making me a little jealous, lol!😉
Thank you so much! Your comment means a ton to us. As for the solar, we found out last season that we didn't quite have enough to bring us back to 100% each day, so although we added one more battery this season we doubled the solar panels. That did the trick! We're now on week 4 without anything for power other than solar, but tomorrow's forecast into the low 90s may just make us break out the genny for the a/c.
Hello from Junior and Sharron. We have just recently started our journey. Haven't done any boondocking yet. Your reviews are great. Hope to learn alot from this channel.
I like that you started the video with a map, it's really helpful. What a cool area to stay! I always enjoy your overview of the local history, it enhances the experience of seeing the area, as I'm guessing it does for you. Next week I'll be enroute to Ontario, so I'm not sure if I'll make the premier, but I'll try! 🙂
Nevada is like a real time machine, Marc. So many historic remnants still exist wherever you go out in the Nevada wilderness. Great sharing on all these areas. I enjoyed watching immensely. Really glad your new solar system is working out beyond expectations. Thanks for the great job you do. What temps are you dealing with now? Were you expecting to visit Carson City? The original Nevada State Prison has recently turned into a historic tour guided facility. Unfortunately, it became an instant success and they are booked through June. They are still taking tour reservations for July and August. Their guided tour is apparently that good. Lots of research was done and incorporated into the tour narration by the many professional and volunteer workers. I didn't know anything about it and all of a sudden It came to my mind that I should look up the historic Nevada State Prison. And viola... it is a tremendously successful recent (end of 2021) tour guided facility. They haven't even completed their first year. Gord
Thanks Gord! Appreciate the tip on Nevada State Prison, but with that backlog of reservations it sounds like our visit to that facility will have to wait. We'll be not far from there next week. This week we're in Goldfield, where temps are well above normal into the upper 80s during the day, until tonight when a sharp cold front comes through to drop highs by about 25 degrees. However, it's been cooling off beautifully at night.
@@GrandAdventure Thanks Marc. I figured you would be long gone by July. But wanted to share that with you anyway. A tip for another season or maybe later this season, as you head back west. Nevada is not yet hot like Texas is right now. We are in the nineties every day. May just passed right into June, this year. Next week we get the same cool down as you do with highs in the upper seventies and low eighties here in DFW. Gord
Thanks Bill! Yep it's been mostly pleasant, occasionally tolerable although we may have a day or two into the 90s starting tomorrow where we're at right now at only 4,150'.
Great content! We'll start sending your channel to our clients who recently bought land from us near the camping areas. This will surely give them awesome ideas. Thanks for sharing! 😊
I appreciate your travel videos. The content is great and so is the photography and the information you provide. But I wish you would turn down the volume for the music.
I had not heard of this small but economical little town; I just put it on my list. I’m almost as excited as you to see how well the solar/battery upgrade is working! Fully charged by 1pm, with the amount of coffee you drink? ;-) That’s impressive! Also, that train station reminds me of Kelso, in the Mojave… Thanks for another cool video!
I had not previously thought of the comparison to the depot in Kelso, but you're right! Multiple pots of coffee, regular use of the microwave, Patricia running a room fan all night, me running a heated mattress pad all night, three computers, Starlink, etc. No power issues whatsoever.
Nice image... somebody's always taking a dump somewhere... all the time. Consequently, the world's full of it. That why I like RV'ing... just passing through. Oops. 🙊💩
Nice job Marc. As always! Your channel is superb in content, documentation and extremely interesting information. We really enjoy watching. Someday hope to see y’all on the road. Safe travels.
How are you doing mr Marc I didn’t send comments from long times actually iam subscriber to several British and American RU-vid channels last two month ifound out book tubes channels and I miss your trips to different places because we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students enjoy to explore places unknown to us to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s pioche is unincorporated town in Lincoln county nevada north east Las Vegas us route 93 first settlement of the area in year 1864 opening sliver mine settlers abandoned area when local Indians tribes launched series of raids and massacres there are several attractions such as pioche is known for million dollar court house in 1872 old Mountain View hotel when president Herbert Hoover stayed there in 1930 this hotel built in 1895 its served lodging needs of court business now no longer another hotel overland operating
Great to hear from you again Khatoon! In fact, after remaining stationary for 5 months we're just now back out on the road for our travel season. And yes, you nailed it as usual.
Yes Greg, it most certainly will. We're into the lithium and solar for around $7,000 spread over two years. At $40/night for an average campsite, we'll recoup that investment over 175 nights of camping. The ability to camp anywhere and not even think about electricity usage, however, is priceless to us.
Hey Richie! Great to hear from you, hope all is well down there in Vegas. Nope, too hot for us this time of year. We came in from the north, then headed west when we left Pioche. Next we'll be northbound again trying to avoid this unseasonable warmth.
@@GrandAdventure Yes very hot I’m heading up to Boise Idaho on Wednesday to do a trapeze workshop up there and then camp on the way up and maybe camp on the way back. Safe travels
Last part of my research aerial tramway carried buckets ore from mines to god be Mill during 1920s 1930s used for transportation sliver and nickel ore during Labor Day in September population there swell for event including fireworks history based theatre mining car filling called mucking events in December Christmas tree lighting there are too town of pioche nevada history maker nevada slot canyon historic down town pioche historic walking tour murder row at legendary Boot Hill cemetery history delights at spring valley state park pioneer graffiti canyon state park best bar hopping for 70 Milles and pioche neone scene historic overland hotel saloon all about locals at Carson city happy mother day to yours and ours and all mothers we celebrated mother day in Arabic countries as well as England last March it’s different date around world you in USA and Canada on May stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
