Another 800 km closer, now in Austin Nevada.
Easy driving today with little traffic and the interstate I got on briefly was newly paved! It never ceases to amaze me in America how many miles of roads there are with great surfaces, connecting nowhere to nowhere and with little traffic moving on them.
Pretty scenery through scrub grass and sagebrush, canyons and broad glacial carved wide flat bottomed valleys. Air quite hazy again – forest fires or pollution?
Austin looks like a ghost town with most of its main street shops and tourist services closed – ? covid victims. The “Cozy Mountain Motel” is cozy indeed – mignon – but does the job! Good to get off the road and climbed up the hill for a viewpoint of the long valley below, startling two deer. The grade of the hills must make for interesting driving when snowy and icy…