Back in Fallon 5-7-08

We were going to get on the road early, but Larry helped our neighbor track down a little problem with his “air” brakes. We didn’t get going until 8:20 or so.

West on 50, Northern Nevada has many mountain ranges. We climbed 12 summits today. The last three were around 4,600 feet and the rest were in the 6 to 7,000 foot level. Most of the snow was gone, just large patches and it was windy today. The clouds kept getting blacker and we hit several downpours along the way. The rain-fresh smells were wonderful, and the sage was especially strong.

We traveled 267 miles today and landed in Fallon around 1:40. We stopped at the Fairgrounds so Larry could dump the tanks and then headed for the house. We got the trailer parked, Larry cut the lawn and then we unloaded most of the essentials, we’ll finish tomorrow.

We were going to hit the road again in about 2 weeks, but our lawn was neglected so badly by the tenant and ultimately the Property Manager that we are going to stay here for a bit and see if we can get it revived with fertilizer and seed so we’ll have to be here to water it and baby it along.

I expected the surfaces of the furniture to be gray with dust with being gone a month, but this house is nice and tight and without us in it the house stayed really clean!