Saturday, October 26, 2013

Oct. 23, 2013

Lonely Road

Probably our longest driving day of the trip.  Mainly because there is pretty much nothing other than 325 miles of road between Ely and Reno.  Fallon and Fernley are medium sized farm towns about 50 and 30 miles from Reno but neither has much to see (nice city park in Fallon though) and there are better RV campgrounds in Reno/Sparks area (and for us, family).  Highway 50 is lonely (probably met fewer than 40 vehicles and were passed by 5 going our way in over 250 miles prior to Fallon outskirts) but it is beautiful.  Long stretches of road through constantly changing vistas.  Across a wide valley and over a mountain pass and down into another valley but with a different look.  Over and over.  There are six or seven passes but the valleys are so high that the climb up the passes doesn’t seem too extreme.  Nice day.  Clear, no clouds, and nice temp as we got further west (it was 24 degrees this morning in Ely Smile). 

Ely, NVHwy 50, NVP1080173P1080180Hwy 50, NVHwy 50, West of Austin, NV

 

Got to Christina and Roland’s house about 3:30 and spent the afternoon and evening visiting and watching Charlie.  When we left he was getting into the walking thing.  Pretty jerky but able to get across the room.  Now he no longer walks.  He RUNS.  Everywhere!  Even as few as three steps .  When he is not running he is climbing and/or reaching.  Things on counters have to be a foot from the edge and soon that will not help.  On couches he runs and climbs.  Back and forth, up and over.  We got a good workout just watching him.



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