Well, we were both very tired yesterday and headed for bed about 7:45. Strangely, we were up at 4:30, dressed and had loaded the car by 5:05. By the way, it's dark at that time. Stopped at Ron's place, Starbucks and Shell for fuel and headed East on Highway 50.
Initially, the drive was easy, in spite of the darkness. Apparently not a lot of people are up at that hour. A short ways down the highway the sun started to rise in the East. I had forgotton about that bit of nighttime vs daytime until cresting a hill and being blinded by a large yellow orb.
Today's warning signs included cattle, horses, angry bulls, big horn sheep, mules (maybe donkeys, I don't know the difference) all on or near the roadway. Travel today took us past three military instalations. Fallon Naval Air Station, home of Top Gun, the Navy's premier air combat training facility. Hawthrone Army Depot is a 147,000 acre ammunation storage facility. Creech Air Force base from where pilots remotely fly drones such as the MQ-9 Raaper.
Most of our time today saw spent on Highway 95, which is home to many small towns. There's not much that can be said about most. The Angel's Lady Brothel stands out on the North side of Beatty. Although closed in 2014, the sign remains prominent beside the highway. Goldfield hosts the International Car Forest, where 29 cars are planted vertically in the ground. We have not visited, nor do we intend to, so no photos of the forest. Amargosa Valley offers up the Area 51 Alien Center. I offer up this photo as proof of its existance.
And now for today's excitment. About 3:30 in the afternoon, we were doing about 70 MPM (in a 70 MPH zone) on a good two lane highway, when i noticed an oncoming car in my lane. The car was trying to pass a semi, but had no chance of doing so before meeting the Jeep head-on. My inital reaction was hitting the brakes hard and beginning a move toward the right shoulder. Things got a bit dicey when the other car also headed toward the same shoulder. I quickly corrected and moved back into my lane and watched as the other passed by noisily on the gravel. The whole incident was captured on the dash cam. The dash cam is a little over a year old and has captured three incidents.
The rest of the drive was uneventful, except for the traffic in Las Vegas and Henderson. Tomorrow we haed home.
455.7 miles today.
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