Where are we ????

The following morning we headed back home and could only hope not to have to go through the same fiasco as we did driving to California. So we set the GPS for home and followed directions. 4 hours later we arrived at a Ranger station where they asked for $20 to pass through Yosemite Park, we informed him that we had no intentions of driving through the park and that our GPS had sent us in that direction. After a brief discussion on our where abouts, we were informed that the road that the GPS had lead us to had been closed for over 30 years. Then we decided as long as we were here we may as well drive through Yosemite and just enjoy the park, it was very beautiful and we saw a mountain lion, that was exciting, would love to go camping there some day. After we pass through the park we gased up the vehicles and the GPS said it was a shorter distance to travel through the mountains, so we did, how were we to know that the road was winding roads at 25 miles for over 150 miles. We climb as high as 8700 feet in elevation and passed through mountains and lots of snow, yes snow and tons of it and never saw another vehicle which really bothered us. The view was intense but we just wanted to be home. You have to remember we were pulling a loaded 6x12 trailer on a basically one way road through the mountains.

After passing through the mountains and another four hour we could finally see signs to Reno Nevada. We could relax now that we were back to civilization. We had been driving for 15 hours and decided to get some sleep cause we still had 7 hours left to arrive home. We spent the night in a small butt hole town called Lovelock in Nevada. What a nightmare that was. The motel manager looked like something out of a horror movie and the rooms smelled worst than a ashtray. The Francoms tried to brush their teeth in the morning and the water was brown, we really tried to make the best out of a weird situation. Dad said that one day we will laugh about it, but until then Hunter described it as the worst day of his life. So we said a little prayer to thank our Heavenly for keeping us safe and drove the rest of the way home.