Here we are back where we started. Left Laughlin Friday morning and came north through Searchlight, Las Vegas, Tonopah, Hawthorne and Fallon.
The trip was made a lot easier by listening to Nora Roberts "Blue Smoke". The only problem is now we have to take another trip somewhere to listen to the last disc and a half! You get wrapped up in the story and time just flies by.
Nothing exciting on the way home, although it is always interesting to see the desert and mountains in such a vast setting. They're interrupted only by the occasional town (see list above). I really enjoy seeing the old mines, deserted towns, etc. in the middle of nowhere. It reminds me how hard it must have been for people back in the late 1800's and early 1900's to get around Nevada and how long it took to get from one location to another. What takes us hours on the modern highways would take them weeks and months. There are so many roads wandering off through the mountains just aching for the Jeep to explore them!
The landscape is still changing as witnessed by construction such as the Crescent Dunes Solar Project which has brought hundreds of workers to Tonopah. Once again, they'll leave when the job is done just as the miners left the gold fields, and the Air Force personnel left Tonopah Air Base, changing the town in some ways and leaving their particular mark.
Everything was fine back in Reno, except that they have winter storm warnings out for the weekend with snow forecast in the mountains. What happened to that sunshine and warm weather in the southern part of Nevada?
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