3 June 2009: Beyond Honey Lake, the straight road of US-395 stretched out towards the mountains. It was already starting to “feel” like Nevada, even though we weren’t there yet. The desert has its own aura. I have missed it.

We passed a motorcycle recreation area, worn into the hillside. There didn’t seem to be many people around.

We looked in on Milton for a registered point of historical interest, but didn’t see anything that might be a plaque. A few miles later we pulled in at a gas station and Don made some changes to the transmission. We ended up being last in a convoy, since everyone decided to leave all at once.

We drove to the left of fingerling mountains, with their toes in bright green, irrigated land. The juxtaposition of dry browns and vivid greens never cease to impress.

There’s a lot of geology around here, with deep glacial grooves cut into the hillsides. As we traveled further and further south, the scenery became ever more exciting.

A few miles north of the state line, hundreds of train cars were parked. At first I thought they were traveling, but then I realized they were simply stored there.

What’s this we see? Border Town?

Finally! We’d made it to Nevada, and Harvey crossed his first state line. With a nod to Kristin…they grow up so fast! ;)

We wandered on down into Reno, quickly finding a Wal-Mart. A guard tootled up and told us we’d be good to stay for one night if we wanted, so we partook of that offer, gladly, especially since within half an hour of arrival the thunderstorm finally caught up with us and the skies, quite literally, opened.

We sat inside Harvey and enjoyed technical difficulties: my phone balance was low; I couldn’t reach my contact in Reno, and we couldn’t get online. My laptop disk was full. There were no snarfs, no casino, nothing but a big parking lot and, later, a burger from Wendy’s. It wasn’t quite the night in Reno I was hoping for, but you can’t win them all. ;)

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