Ice Gal's: Austin - Texas Or Nevada?

Well after some awesome soaking at the Crane Hot Springs I headed south on 95 and ended up rolling out of Oregon at McDermitt. On my map McDermitt looks to still be in Oregon, but when I pulled into the filling station no deaf guy, like the one in John Day, who talked as loud as he could at me the whole time he pumped my gas, appeared. I was clearly back in the land of Self Service.

I Had The Feeling I Was Being Watched

Highway 95 ends or starts in Winnemucca, depending if you are north or south bound. Also, I discovered that alone in the van with a name traveling to Winnemucca, you can make up all kinds of rhymes using the notorious F work, and Winnemucca. Go ahead and give it a try.

I thought about staying in Winnemucca, but I was running out of rhymes, so I headed east to Battle Mountain, the town with a giant BM painted on the side of the mountain and has conflicting stories if the town was named after a actual battle with the 18 century locals and white settlers. Or after the mountain range.

I ended up staying at a RV park I have stayed at before and was treated to a second night of temperatures in the teens.

It was south bound in the morning with a heading to Austin Nevada, a town that could be just about in the center of Nevada. It is also on highway 50, and in these parts, it’s called the “loneliest Road” I used to live on highway 50 high in the Sierra Nevada at Lake Tahoe. Not very lonely there.

Austin Fire Alarm. It Should Work?

Lots of new pavement on this section of Highway 50. It made for some smooth running.

At Ely I turn off 50 and head south on 93.My destination is Cathedral Gorge state park. What a great little park, with excellent camping spots. I selected on with electricity and settled in to go explore the rock formations.