Charleston Peak RV Park & Winery, Pahrump NV

We arrived in Pahrump, NV on a Saturday afternoon. This is a small, quiet, clean delightful park and became our homebase for one week. It is the newest WH park. We met up with Kay and Ed who we know from Gunison, CO RV days together. It is a Western Horizon park also. Now we meet again and share jeeping, sightseeing, eatting and chatting for a week. What a beautiful setting to share with friends!

Jerry, Mike and Mary Jo enjoy the beauty of Mountain Falls Golf Course near our RV park.

Mike noticed the ducks, of course. Waterfalls in the background added to the interest of course.

We were richly blessed as again this year we worshiped at Choice Hills Church. God is blessing these christians with church growth and a loving spirit. The sign reads: Is anything too hard for God?

We had to check on the gym building that Mike and I volunteered to help build when we were here last year. Mike hung drywall; he loves a gym and was excited to learn this congregation chose to build this on their own for outreach. They paid for it as they went also. This year we return and find the gym done, and a new dynamic youth minister at work. Two young people were baptized the morning we worshiped with them. We pray for their continued witness and active ministry.

This small church is doing BIG things for the Lord in Nevada and the world!

Death Valley National Park is our base for the first jeep outing this week. Ed and Kay are friends who have built a home here in Pahrump, NV. They brought friends along in their jeep and we were off for the day. Pictures below are from the Death Valley area. Our first stop was Dante's Point where we could see far and wide from a high point.

On the Cholide City jeep trail we found abandoned mines. Jerry is by a grave site and Mary Jo is by a cabin. In the cabin you can see a passage straight into the mine. The fun is the adventure of exploring.

Death Valley has more abandoned mines than any other national park. Out of the 6000 to 10,000 abandoned mines, approximately 3000 need some safety mitigaton. We must be careful approaching them.

It was interesting to watch sea level as we traveled through the day. We went from over 5000 to -300 elevation on this trip.

There were a few yellow flowers along the road but this is the only red flower we found all day. There are not many wildflowers in this area compared to Borrego Springs last week where flowers were every where.

Jeep outing number two with Ed and Kay led us to Sandy Valley and on to Kingston BLM country.

We saw many changes of scenery in this awesome land.

We stopped at the China Date Ranch and Edie and Mary Jo saw a cluster of dates hanging in the tree. Can you tell that Edie and Jerry just finished a date shake? Yummy!!!

These small flowering pots were spotted in a nearby greenhouse. Aren't they beautiful?