Day 1 - Loneliest Highway

Highway 50 may have the moniker of loneliest highway, but with a teenager, a husband, a cat, two bikes, and a summer's worth of gear, things were feeling quite populated. We are on our way to Colorado for the next 30 days. Jon and I will be working remotely as usual. And Jon is going to lots of bike races, as usual. Axel is going to try to barge the gate at the Summit Stix lacrosse camp in Breckenridge. It was full but we brought his gear anyway. Me? The usual walking about and taking yoga classes. 

Odessa was very vocal when we first got into the car. We made meows-per-minute (mpm) into a metric. Thankfully she eventually chose to hang out in her backpack and the mpm rate started to fall. 

Odessa selfie

Don't worry, the window was closed.

Can you spot the sleeping cat?

We stopped at Fuji Park in Carson City to picnic. Leftover fried chicken makes good picnic food. We also had apples and nectarines.

We stopped on the roadside for a "nature break" (as they call them in bicycle races). I had to hoof it out to a lone sagebrush but it was worth it, The sage smelled amazing.

Axel on the side of highway 50 roughly halfway between nothing and nowhere.

But we had each other.

Later there was another nature break. I chose to wait for our day's destination, Eureka, Nevada.

Once in Eureka, Jon needed to take a bike ride. His race is on Saturday. Here he is taking a cute selfie.

Jon saw some wildlife on the bike ride. Here is a pronghorn antelope, spotted limping about some alfalfa fields northwest of Eureka. Jon reports it made a funny noise, sounding like a space laser from an 80’s sci-fi movie.

He also saw this bug, which was probably large enough to eat. I am calling it the land lobster.

Axel always takes the best photos. Tomorrow, more Highway 50, and then we head south toward our next destination: Beaver, Utah and the Tushar Mountains.