Nevada

We arrived in Nevada on Kevin’s birthday, May 29, and as customary went to a Mexican restaurant to celebrate. We stayed in the town of Verdi; a few miles outside of Reno and on the border of California. Kevin looked at Google Maps and saw that our RV was literally on the Nevada/California border! With that said we again drove to California to visit Lake Tahoe. It’s very pretty with blue water surrounded by pine trees and mountains. After visiting the lake we drove to a state park and did a dog friendly hike with Pepper.
On the second day we took the RV in for an oil change. To kill time we went to a coffee shop shop then rode our bikes along the Truckee River. It was a nice path and easy to ride. Since we had Pepper with us I put her in the backpack and took her on her first bike ride! She did well; didn’t try to jump out or move around too much. On our last night there we drove into Reno to a cocktail lounge in Midtown for a drink. It was a nice little place, not busy at all as it was a Monday night.
On June 2 we started our drive to Utah on Highway 50; noted by Life magazine in 1986 as “ The Loneliest Highway in America”. It has 4 small towns in a span of 286 miles. We stopped in Eureka, the third town, for the night (and thankfully it was only one night!). The next day we drove to the last town, Ely, where we turned onto Highway 93, which is equally as vast and more void of civilization than Highway 50. The land scape went from sagebrush to mountains spotted with trees and back again. We drove past ranches with cows in the distance along most of the drive. All told we drove 549 miles. We arrived in Utah at 1:51 pm on June 3rd and within a few minutes had cell service again.Read more