Re: A couple pictures

Great pictures Jim. Welcome back. Hope your trip was an enjoyable one.
Linda1

Jim Everman...

To short. ;-) Thanks.

Knut Willy...

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Just dropped in the middle of a thread it seems.
Linda said GREAT PICTURES.
I do no know which pictures, Jim.

Jim Everman...

Just for you, Sir Knut:

"I just put some pictures on the blog
Mostly grand kids, one of the moon rise
over central Nevada a week ago.

Knut Willy...

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Now I had a look at them pictures.
About Americas loneliest road: Isn't it a bit spooky, scaring, to drive
all alone on such a road? I'm thinking of motor breakdown, bensin
shortage. (Professional pessimist :-) )

Jim Everman...

It is over 200 miles of dessert, occasionally interrupted by twisty
sections through the mountains. You leave Fallon with a full tank of
fuel because the next place with reasonably priced fuel is Ely, actually
more than 200 miles away. You don't go that way if there is any doubt
your car will make it. It's not quite as lonely as it use to be, I'd
guess I saw at least 20 cars on the road in that 200 miles.

Jean B....

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What is the speed limit there? When you are not on those
twisty parts, it seems like the limit must be artificially low.

Jim Everman...

I believe the speed limit is 75 MPH, but I usually spend most of my
time ignoring it. Actually, this trip I stayed pretty close to the
limit, but usually that is where I find out how fast my car will go.

And the twisty parts are *really* twisty. This trip, the ones near Ely
(where I stopped for the night) were covered with snow and sorta
slippery. I think I averaged about 35 MPH for the last several miles.

On one of the pictures of your grand children was a sentence I didn't get
a meening in:

"but they send so much faster with nothing attached!"

Did you mean if no trailer wagon had been attached to his tricycle?

Jean B....

I thought he meant the messages send much faster if no photos
are attached, but I may be wrong.

Jim Everman...

Jean B....

Hehe. I imagined the speed limits were kind-of theoretical.
Do you like those twisty parts, even though they slow you down?

Jim Everman...

Ordinarily I enjoy them. There are just a few - there are two small
towns along Rt. 50 there, Austin and Eureka, and to the east of each are
some really nice views of the desert far below. Hairpin turns, two lane
blacktop, way too busy to take pictures sort of driving (great places to
scare the wits out of a passenger - woulda been real fun in my Europa).

And just before you get to Ely it's almost the same but it was snowing
and dark when I got there. I went around one turn at a VERY conservative
speed, so I thought - and then realized that any mistake on my part
might well put me into a slid. I slowed WAY down after that.

Since I had planned to stop at Ely anyway it was no big deal.

That was also where I picked up prolly 80% of the dirt on the car that
the nice state highway patrol officer didn't like.

The first attempt I made to send that picture, I neglected to attach
the picture. It is much quicker to just shove text (sans picture) over
the telephone wires. The text was up for a while, but got deleted.