Day 9 – June 18, 2009
Up early with a stop at the truck stop restaurant for breakfast and then we headed west for Ely, NV and it was cold again. I thought it was hot in the desert and I thought it didn’t rain but we did get a few sprinkles. We traveled through so many different types of terrain and let so much the same. More of the petrified sand and desert with tumbleweed; climbing ridges and twisting down the other side; some areas the sand looks like huge trucks have dumped piles of sand and I expected to see the ocean just over the ridge. Some desert areas had low growing tumbleweed and other brush while other desert areas support no living plant life at all. We entered the Great Basin and as far as we could see the fields were covered with brown grasses waving in the wind. Suddenly as we drew closer to Delta the mountains became draped with green and the ground at the foot of the mountains was thick with some type of pine or juniper. The trees are short, maybe 7 feet and twisted like twine with the branches starting at ground level giving them more of the appearance of a large bush instead of a tree. We stopped for lunch at Delta and that was a good idea because our next stop was Ely, NV 158 miles down the road. With nothing in sight we rode for 100 miles without stopping because there just wasn’t any place to pull over safely. We have stopped for the night at the Jailhouse Casino in Ely, NV. Rooms are nice, parking lot is level and the price is right at $58 per room. After dinner at the Casino I had to stop and play which means just giving a few bucks to some hungry slot machine. Don on the other hand won a little and Roger won $250.
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