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Exploring. We get snippets of information in various ways - a mention of someplace in a conversation, an interesting name on a sign we drive by, books, internet, and then we’re always pouring over our maps. The Lady and I love geology and reading. Our favorites are the geology series of books by John McPhee with Rising from the Plains and Basin and Range on the top shelf.
We wanted to
get away again for the weekend. Nevada! This trip was just exploring. No real
destination in mind but some of those little “gathered snippets” coming into
play.
As we’ve all
experienced, some of our best trip experiences are the unplanned, just looking
around the next corner. This was a great quick trip. Please enjoy.
We left well
before dawn Saturday. We like to get the driving out of the way and to start a
trip out the Lady likes her first breakfast out. And it's got to be a mom &
pop, down home cafe. I will spill the beans - or great home fries in this
case - on this location: The Roadrunner Cafe in Dayton, just past Our Park. Try
it.
Pronghorn,
feral horses and burros, miles of dirt roads, pictographs, hot springs,
wildflowers, sunrises and sunset, ruins, and lots of solitude; who could want
for anything more?
This was a
great stress reliever..........
Where to
spend the night? We just turned down a primitive two track and in a mile or two
found a good spot to pop the top.
On Sunday,
one road we found led to an old ranch.
And in
Nevada, a state that still has open space and vastness, still some of the best
things are right at our feet.
Get out
there, point it down a small road, and explore. We're trying!
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