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Nevada and home 17 October 2014


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Ely is famous for what once was, and may still be, the largest open pit mine in the world. Just after taking this picture, we saw the big trucks – HUGE trucks – looking like ants up on the pile.

 <p>Tailings at Ruth Open Pit Mine</p>

Tailings at Ruth Open Pit Mine
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. We zipped on across Nevada, the most mountainous state in the union, past Tarantulas, dry lake beds, abandoned mines, and quaint boomtowns; winding over a mountain range, then a straight road across a wide dry valley to the next range.</p>

I'm running out of pictures here. We zipped on across Nevada, the most mountainous state in the union, past Tarantulas, dry lake beds, abandoned mines, and quaint boomtowns; winding over a mountain range, then a straight road across a wide dry valley to the next range.
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Reno for lunch, and then I take the wheel for the up-and-over Donner Pass and down into the Sacramento Valley to Chico for a Sierra Nevada dinner with Rochelle and Sienna. Sienna headed on to Williams and home, and I followed soon after ... and the dream trip was over.

For many more, bigger, and better images, please visit Sienna's album here.

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