Sunday, September 23, 2012

Utah Into Nevada

My original thoughts on routing our trip included Southern Idaho.  Because we visited Salt Lake City, Eric decided to take a more southerly route through Nevada to Oregon.





In the future, we will mark our route daily, not for a week at a time and there will be fewer crossed out routes to look at as we remember our trips. 



The Great Salt Lake has boats on it.  I never thought about this lake as a recreation site.  Eric tells me The Great Salt Lake has 27% salinity.  It has bacteria and brine shrimp in it... no fish.






















Salt Harvesting























We passed the Bonneville Speedway.  Very cool!






















 Strange Roadside Attractions




Someone added eyeballs to these "cave like" depressions in the side of the mountain.  The blue line came from my camera angle as I took the pic.  





 We don't know what this is.  It appeared and Eric took a pic of it. 







The mountains keep changing.  There are interesting rock formations.  The vegetation has changed... It seems more brown.  Approaching Winnemucca, we were surprised to see golden bands in the landscape.  Eric believes the gold is a different variety of grass. 






I drove three hours today.  Eric again commented on how easy this trip has been because he's able to take breaks while we are driving.  He's been having some aches and pains in his legs and is very happy not to drive in pain for an hour or more so we can "make time."











We were on a pin straight section of Interstate 80 West.   Eric took his hands of the wheel of the motor home to show how straight and flat the road is and this also shows off the alignment of the motor home. 







We've arrived at the Walmart in Winnemucca, NV and parked near the casino.  Eric is making Mojitos and I'm taking pics of our evening accommodations. 




The manager at Walmart told me to park 
near the casino.




Here's the casino we parked near
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2 comments:

  1. AlexESeptember 24, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    Chiming in from Gearheadland:

    http://www.saltflats.com/save%20the%20salt.html

    ...Or google on the subject. Bonneville was almost lost due to mining activity nearby. The page linked above has a brief history of the decline and remediation that kept the race course alive.

    Very much enjoying reading your blog. Thanks for taking us with you.

    (Do get through Boise if you can, Mel & I love the place.)

    A.

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  2. GinnySeptember 24, 2012 at 11:11 AM

    Why am I not surprised? This is what "man" does. Exploitation of resources without interest in the environs creates problems.

    I think it's great that the salt extraction company is on board with the process of restoring the Salt Flats.

    I appreciate your comments. I think about work often and miss many of the staff and public that filled my days with interesting conversations.

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