Winnemucca, Nevada

We drove for many many hours into the night making our way from Utah to Nevada. As we entered Nevada before sundown we passed gas stations we could not photograph quick enough upon passing in the car, that all had signs that looked like the strip in Vegas. Signs resembling marques with flashing lights. We knew we were in Nevada then.

We stayed in Winnemucca (pronounced Winn-ah-muhcc-ah) Two hours north of Reno in the middle of the desert. We arrived at the campsite in the wee hours of the morning once again. We are never certain what each campsite will look like since we have never camped before. It is always a surprise to see and figure out how we will set up camp, whether it will be gravel, rock, dirt or weeds, in which to place the tent on and stake it down. We got the tent up in the dark hopefully without waking everyone else with the headlights and rustling. We suspected since we were the only tenters the rv's were more sound proof. We slept a short time and got up to shower, eat our fruit, prepare salads for lunch and wash clothes. That is the extra hours of the day I did not figure in to this journey of ours along with all the sightseeing we were squeezing into a 24 hour day. The sun came up and it was still cool for the first hour but then the desert heat kicked in and we changed clothes quick. We stayed at Hi-Desert RV park. The facilities were nice yet we had so many more hours to go to reach Oregon with a evening deadline to have our tent on site, we didn't get to enjoy it as long as we would have liked. The town of Winnemucca was hard to maneuver with the street layout but the grocery stores carried amazing (and I mean amazing for the location) organic and whole foods and some of the prepackaged snacks we eat occasionally. We bought more fruit and moved on.

The desert wildflowers were abundant and Tracy took pictures of many and placed them on her blog http://fancyfelina.blogspot.com