Posts tagged as:

Nevada

Day 50 Recap; Top Gun, Maverick, Goose, and Ice-Man

July 26, 2010

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan once sang/mumbled to an entire generation. After a rough afternoon spent in the middle of a windstorm in the western Nevada desert, we didn’t need Mr. Tambourine Man or Doppler Dave from News Channel 10 to inform us we had just [...]

Read the full article →

Day 49 Recap; The Pony Express

July 25, 2010

After waking up in the middle of the night to start our ride for the past few days, we decided to give ourselves a break. We reverted back to our old routine by waking up at 8 o’clock and hitting the road at 9 o’clock. After eating a delightfully healthy breakfast consisting of Golden Malted [...]

Read the full article →

Day 48 Recap; Loneliest Road in America

July 24, 2010

“This trip is a game.” So starts David Robertson’s 1996 essay on the 287-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 50 running from Ely, Nevada west to the California border. In 1986, a writer for Life dubbed the highway “the loneliest road in America,” and the name and associated mystique has stuck ever since. As we rode [...]

Read the full article →

Day 47 Recap; Remembering Thomas F. Pitts

July 23, 2010

Thanks to staying at the Border Inn, which literally sits on the border of Utah and Nevada, we were able to get an even earlier start to the day, as the Pacific Time Zone starts in the Silver State. This meant the alarm went off at 3 am this morning, giving us an extremely early [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries