Bill and Helen's RV travel blog

  Thursday 9/19/24  Day 10 Bonneville Salt Flats, First KFC and Jones High Country RV We boondocked near the Bonneville Salt Flats last night. Boondocking, generally, is parking your RV on a bit of government land and spending the night. There typically aren't any designated camp sites, you just find a spot you like and park for the night. We found a beautifully sparse site and loved it. We enjoyed a beautiful sunrise,  the full moon was still up and the sunrise colored the sky gorgeous pale shades of lavender, pink, and yellow. There is very little vegetation, but still a stark beauty with the craggy mountains and cloudless blue sky after the sun rose more . ,,,and the full moon was still in the blue sky! And took a long walk through the desert       Casting long shadows      We loved it! And it's FREE! (thank you tax payers!) We headed east on I-80, driving nearby or on the location of sections of the California wagon train trail ...

  Wednesday 9/18/24  Day 9 Historic Wendover Airfield & Bonneville Salt Flats Wendover Airfield was built in the early 1940’s a fter the outbreak of WWII to train bomber crews in gunnery and bombing. At it’s peak it housed 20,000 airmen, doctors, nurses, ground crews, and support staff in over 600 buildings. It's still used today as an airport but no longer has any sch eduled flights since the local casino charter flights stopped during Covid. We weren't able to tour the whole facility as the Officer's Club and Enola Gay Hanger were being used for a wedding and reception... although we did walk through the hanger after the ceremony. Both B-29 Superfortress bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Japan - The Enola Gay (named after pilot Paul Tibbets' mother) and Bockscar, trained there including practice dropping mock ups of the two bombs: Little Boy and Fat Man respectively.  But mostly, the base was used to train B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. The guy who seems to run ...