Nevada....

When you drive the Highways from Reno, Nevada to Fernley-Fallon, you pass the occasional house, bar,or brothel. When You get into Fallon on US highway 50, you have hit the 5th biggest town in Nevada. Reno , Las Vegas, Carson City, something else and Fallon! There is where the US 95 from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, crosses US 50 from East to West Coast. And from there heading East, you get ZIP!!! Nada!! Oh I lied...5 miles out of Fallon is the Brothel at Salt Wells. Sign advertises GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, and it has a 6 foot chain link fence all the way around it.

You continue on, and in about 50 miles you reach Middle Gate, Which is a Bar, gas Pump and Porta pottie.


middle gate

This is the view to the North from Middlegate. Nice Huh? Makes you wonder why you are heading there.


mg2

This is the view to the east. Charming eh what? Us 50 is known as the loneliest road in America. This shows you why. From Middle gate to Austin is another 45 miles. SO from Fallon to Austin is 95 miles. And NOTHING but middlegate on the road. The Cattle run freely, just like the old west. No fences.


Dixie valley

This is another view of the road to Austin., This is Dixie Valley. The US Navy has the bombing range and the TOP GUN flying school in Fallon, so they play their war games in this valley. When you are watching JAG or PENSACOLA NAS The fight scenes are filmed in this valley. It is nothing to be driving 95 miles an hour down this road, and see an f-14 or an F-15 shoot right across the road just about fence post high. Scares the living crap outa ya it does!


US 50

This is just another view to show you that really, there is NOTHING on this road. once you hit Austin, there is an old mining town, and a few restaurants and gas stations and I think there is still a hotel there, but not much else. Then you drive for another 100 miles to Eureka, where the Railroad museum is. Then another 90 miles to the Utah border. When they say the loneliest road in America, They mean it. No Cell phone reception, no pay phones, no gas stations to speak of, no houses. Just Cattle and sand, and tumble weeds and Sage brush. For mile after mile after mile. Cold and nasty in the winter, and hotter than Hades in the summer. It took a very special person to cross this in a wagon pulled by oxen or mules! It follows the Pony Express route, and every year they recreate the ride, and it is brutal on the ones that ride it. I'll stick with my SUV and AC!!