Thursday, May 6, 2010

Travel Blogging I

The DrsC are on the road again with our RV, this time headed for southern Utah and the national parks there. Today we drove one of the prettiest blue line highways in North America: CA 70 which follows the Feather River up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is a truly beautiful road, one we've driven many times and really never tire of.

This is gold country, in the mid-1800s fortunes were taken out of the sandbars on the Feather. Some recreational gold claims are still worked on the river; nothing a person could make a living working.

We're camped tonight literally in the shadow of a high rise casino in Reno, tomorrow we drive what is billed as "the loneliest road in North America." That would be U.S. 50 east from Reno to Ely. As much as we've wandered around the U.S. and Canada, we've never driven this road so it will be a new one for us. A few of these still exist.