I had a lie in this morning until 5.15 am, then got up made coffee and named and uploaded yesterday's photos. I was doing so well I not only completed the post on Sunday's dinner in Bozeman but also completed one on yesterday's travel.
Knowing that we would cross a time zone again today we delayed going down to breakfast until 8.30 am. This will be our last Comfort Inn breakfast of the holiday, they have been really lovely, as have the hotels. I expect to use them again on future visits. As a variation from the norm today the eggs were a cheese omelette, they have been scrambled most other places, we also had sausage links (what we in the UK call sausages) rather the more conventional sausage patty. They were both really tasty.
I finished off with a blueberry bagel and Drew had a poppy seed muffin, a strawberry danish and a vanilla danish.
We departed from the Comfort Inn, Salt Lake City for today's drive at 9.00 am (Mountain Time) and headed off on this simple route:
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What it said was to leave the hotel and turn left onto the one way road outside, go 1 mile and the road becomes the I-80, go 351 miles to Winnemucca, tonight's stop!
The road skirts the Great Salt Lake for which the city is named, then it heads out into the salt flats - the whiteness in these are amazing and the amount of sand collected at the side of the road is enormous. We saw one pile that was 20 feet tall and stretched for 1/4 of a mile.
The Great Salt Lake Desert itself is huge. From junction 78 there are no petrol stations or food places for 74 miles until Wendover at junction 4. After junction 41, Knolls, there is not even a turnoff until junction 4!!
Much of this region is used by the armed forces for testing of weapons and weapon ranges. We saw some odd things in the sky but were not able to tell what they were.
At Wendover we passed into Nevada, our 20th state of the holiday, and called into West Wendover for a coffee and to change driver, it now being 10am Pacific Time. We next passed a place called Summit which was the summit of the Pequor Mountain range and the road headed down into the flatter part of Nevada where all that grows in the desert is sage bush. We didn't manage to take a photo of the sign saying - 'Do not stop for hitchhiker's, Federal Prison area'.
We stopped for lunch in Elko in a McDonalds, Drew had his regular Quarter Pounder Deluxe while I tried yet another of the new flavours, Quarter Pounder with Habanero Sauce, the sauce had a really spicy kick. As there was an offer on, large drinks for the price if the normal ones. These drink cups look more like a bucket and hold 32 oz (just under a litre) of drink, Diet Coke in my case, Dr Pepper in Drew's.
We were back on the road at 1.30 pm and carried on through the hills and desert until we reached the Best Western in Winnemucca at 2.30 pm.
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