yes, we did indeed travel down the loneliest road in america. and how appropriately named it was. we drove through nevada and utah, passing through nothing but desert and ghost towns for two days.
that's us in the nevada desert at sunset. i think in the half hour we were out there, maybe 2 cars drove past us. once the sun went down completely, we set up the tripods to photograph the sky. i've never seen so many stars in my life. it was truly amazing. again we were out there for about an hour, and maybe 4 cars passed us. at one point the boys laid down in the highway to watch the stars. the loneliest road in america.
yeah, that's the milky way. no big deal.
we eventually found a campsite in the desert and set up well after dark. we thought we heard the growls of a large animal in the distance, turns out it was the mountain man in the campsite next to ours snoring all night. we caught him in the morning dressed head to toe in camo, shooting arrows at targets.
we also found this little guy:
the parts of utah we passed through were full of nothing and crumby, run down towns. that about sums it up.
once we hit colorado, we started seeing green and trees again. it has been a few days. we also caught up with a crazy storm. about ten minutes after i took this picture, we got a flat tire. and about five minutes after that, the sky opened up on us, and all of our gear out on the side of the road while the guys were changing the tire.
we got the donut on and went into town for a tire change which held us up a bit, and we ended up camping outside of denver. we got our first cabin of the trip that night because we didn't feel like dealing with the mud.
the worlds longest yard sale was only two days away and we had a long drive ahead of us. we needed our beauty sleep.
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