Road Trip 2005
National Park Run
Day 08
Day 08
Day eight starts off
with a late sleep in and a nice breakfast before heading inland to pick up
'America's Loneliest Highway' through Nevada. A ride that would turn
out be be one of my favorite for the trip.
After leaving the hotel we picked up Hwy-20 heading east. A beautiful road through the trees and mountains. A quite road with small towns and wonderful people.
From there we swing south or Reno and north of Lake Tahoe and make a quick stop at the start of Hwy-50 in Nevada (America's Loneliest Highway) for the score card that we are to get stamped along the way. This being the card provided by the state of Nevada showing the completion of the America's Loneliest Highway.
From there we take in the beautiful sites and the solitude through the long flat valleys between each of the mountain ranges.
Long
straight roads that would stretch for a hundred miles between towns.
Long roads with no one out there but us.
With the sun now setting, the evening ride changes and becomes even more majestic as the moon rises above the mountain tops. A full moon that lights the entire valley.