We had a long drive today, so we left as soon as we had breakfast at our hotel. The drive across Nevada turned out to be more interesting than we expected. Yes, it is dry and long, but the landscape is constantly changing with a variety of hills and mountains and flat land. There isn't much population and the towns are quite far apart.
I was looking forward to seeing the Great Salt Lake. There wasn't much to see, but I did get a shot from the road.
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| Great Salt Lake |
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| Salt mining along the lake |
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| Typical mountain view |
A couple of hours out from Salt Lake City, we saw a sign for the California Trail Interpretive Center and decided to stop. It was a fairly new facility, with a wonderful museum to walk through that had many artifacts and descriptions of the pioneers who took the trails west in the mid-19th century. Outside there were a few exhibits as well, including the covered wagons shown below.
The outside walls had many quotations from pioneer days; this one was especially poignant.
We had our regular picnic lunch at a rest stop along the way and got to our hotel near the Reno airport about 3:00, having once again gained an hour. Tomorrow we are going to Lake Tahoe.
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