Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Loneliest Road in America





Today we drove the "loneliest road in America, Hwy 50. It's known as that because you see very few vehicles and it goes through a lot of flat land with nothing but scrub brush. We drove almost all the way across Nevada east to west about 270 miles. We stopped about half way through at a small town called Austin for lunch. It is nothing like the Austin in Texas. It was quaint but junky. They had one rv park but we decided to move on to a bigger town where are camped now called Fallon. It's got 6000 people and many more stores. Our car was so filthy from driving on dirt roads from going sightseeing that I took it to a car wash while Cindy did the laundry. We didn't see too much today as far as sightseeing goes. We did see one interesting sight. We pulled in to a turnout to switch drivers and saw a tree with hundreds of shoes draped on it. Look closely at the picture. It must be called "The Shoe Tree". Tomorrow we will visit Reno and Carson City.

2 comments:

Gone said...

I've never seen fruit like that before!

VeggieSensations.com said...

The fruit on that tree are a bit rubbery. That must be a forbidden fruit tree.