Back a few months when I was trying to work out an itiniery
for our trip to Arizona and the Escapade I focused on two
locations in the approach to Death Valley. Both locations Tecopa
springs and Shoshone shared the same ecosystem as Death Valley. It
might have made more sense to go Shoshone but the natural hot
springs in Tecopa Springs had a greater draw for me. I was raised by
an imigrant dad who liked the "shvits" meaning sweat in
Yiddish. We were introduced to it early in our lives as a result I
developed an appreciation for hut tubs especially natural hot
springs. Tecopa Springs had them but Shoshone didn't. What Shoshone
had was drinking water which Tecopa Springs didn't. Under normal
circumstances we would based ourselves in Shoshone have driven over
for the day as we did for China Rance but the County Baths were open
24 hours a day and although I didn't go often the appeal was too
great to pass up. So even with our fresh water holding tanks it made
sense to take the trailer and go to Shoshone. We left Tecopa Springs
on March 6, 2017 and drove about 11 miles to the Shoshone RV Park.
As you can see I guaged the tree with the trailer but the bark is
so soft I didn't damage anything but the tree
After setting up we went into town and visited the Shoshone Museum
after the museum visit we walked around town and returned to the
campgThe round and walked on a trail in the campground where we
saw ducks and Shoshone pupfish
The Shoshone pupfish,
supposedly a fish found nowhere else in the world a large
one is only about 2 and half inches long males are iridescent
blue and females yellow brown most live less then 2 years.
The desert pupfish lives in isolated pools and streams in this
area of the Mohave desert. Declared extinct in 1970 they were re
discovered in the mid 80's.
The next day we walked on several man made
trails in the desert opposite the campground returned had
breakfast ,packed up and hooked up
and drove to cemetary and Dublin Gulch where miners carved
dwellings in the caliche clay embankment. After which we left
California and drove to the Prefered RV Resort in Pahrump, Nevada.
That evening we went to dinner at the Symphony Restaurant which is
attached to a desert winery and has it's own helicopter pad. When
the economy was better high rollers whould come over for dinner from
Las Vegas a short distance away. this was not our first visit as we
had camped in the adjoining campground originally owned by the
owners brother.
