WordCamp - Day 7

The following illuminates some of the roads that I took while traveling back home from WordCamp. I have to admit that I was dreading this first day of the trip back because I was not sure what to expect in Nevada. To my surprise, I found that the landscape, though still barren, was slightly better than the what I found days earlier.

The Truckee River

Interstate 80 is heavily populated with patrol cars near the Lake Tahoe region leading up to Reno but I managed to not pay the road tax. If I were to travel through this region again, I would have done it differently and traveled closer to Lake Tahoe, hitting Highway 50 earlier as shown here (the route I took is in green, the alternate route I could have taken is shown with red arrows):

The following are pictures near the Truckee River on Interstate 80 just outside of Reno, Nevada.

Highway 50

I had a blast on this road. Very barren, yes, but an interesting road none-the-less. It was this road where I started to appreciate the state of Nevada more. The following are pictures taken at various points on Highway 50 (from Fernley to Austin, Nevada). An area map of the region in which these pictures were taken is included at the end.

Austin, Nevada

Here is a shot of Austin, Nevada while climbing a twisty road out of the city.

Austin is an small city with some old stone buildings and appears like a fun place to stop and visit. I gassed up here but would have liked to have checked out the town a bit more but wanted to make sure I had some daylight left in order to set up camp in the Great Basin National Park just outside of Baker, Nevada near the Utah border.

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