The day started with great intentions of finding wine less expensively than the grocery store next door, as we had been given "a hint" by another shopper yesterday that the grocery store had high prices. We eventually ended up at the grocery store, as few stores are open on Sunday in Ely.
This meant we were a bit later than our planned time of 8 AM for leaving.
After heading the wrong direction out of the hotel toward Highway 50, my driver eventually agreed to follow what Garmin said and we were on our way in the correct direction about 8:45 AM.
Highway 50 is marked as a Scenic Highway for this next area, and relatively speaking it was more scenic that what we experienced yesterday. However, it was still a VERY lonely highway.
The clouds in the sky made the vistas quite lovely for the high desert where we were traveling.
Jim is the morning Morgan driver and Ellen Jo the afternoon driver. I haven't managed to have Philip let me drive and tow the trailer yet. I am experienced with the truck, but have never towed anything.
Mid-morning we crossed over the state line to Utah.
While purchasing our "last" Nevada wine, Ellen Jo noticed the clerk had an Aero shirt on, so we posed him with Philip and his Morgan shirt to make a Morgan Aero shirt.
We continued on having a lunch stop at Subway shortly before we reached Highway 70.
Ellen then took over driving their Morgan. We were so proud of her because she managed to drive at 65 mph and even made it to 70 mph today. Her confidence is increasing.
The next section of SCENIC HWY 70 was fantastic. There were storm clouds in the sky that made both land and sky spectacular.
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| Water on the road from recent rain |
While there were a few sprinkles en route, the heavy rain didn't start over us until we arrived at the hotel, River Terrace Inn. Upon arrival we were told we couldn't stay there because they had a fire, so we needed to go across the street to the Holiday Inn Express, and hope they had rooms. They did and also had room to park our truck and trailer.
It turns out that lightening struck the River Terrace Inn, and started a fire in the attic, and fried the electrics.
The usual wine and cheese time was enjoyed by us in our room before heading out to the Tamarisk Restaurant where we enjoyed dinner and the most spectacular sunset. Unfortunately, none of the 4 of us had brought our cameras or telephones to dinner, so we captured the scene in our memories, and can't share it with you all.
Tomorrow we head for Silverthorne where we will stay with MONZA friends Dennis and Nancy, meet up with Michael to continue on the trip, and visit with John and Gail who will be following along in a couple of days.
Ken and Pat and Ken and Marion left from British Columbia today heading for Savannah. They expected storms, but hopefully they didn't hit them.
Steve's Morgan was shipped a couple of weeks ago from California and should be arriving in Savannah this week. He and Sue fly to Savannah next Sunday.
I have had no word from the Savannah agent that the Kiwi Morgans are at the warehouse, nor the second container from UK/France. Hopefully we will hear tomorrow that all the Morgans are safely tucked away ready for pickup.
So Morgans Over America is gathering together with just a few days until it officially starts.
1 comment:
Phone in pocket when you leave the car! You could drive the truck/trailer just fine. Even now you're getting used to the feel of it behind you and the effect it has on the truck's handling. Did that mist kicked up off the wet pavement by the vehicle ahead of them get into the Morgan cockpit? Doesn't Utah give a nice scenic contrast to Nevada?
By the way, if you had been following the news of the hiker lost in the mountains east of Fresno, she was found alive after nine days. Water only. She had a water filter, but no food. Two broken legs. She's crawled two days to find the water. Smoke from fires had hampered air search. She had a whistle that she used to signal them. 62-year's old. Elevation above 10,000 feet.
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