DAY V—The Longest Day

I tried to get Mimi to buy this place

and renovate for a bed & breakfast in

Milford, Utah. No mints on the

pillow.

This is the stretch

in Nevada they call

the loneliest road

in America.

If you are keeping score at home, mark me down for the biggest screw up of the trip (so far). I know that does not surprise anyone reading this blog.

Knowing it was going to be a long drive from Cedar City, Utah (nice Holiday Inn Express) to Reno, so I am pushing Mimi to get her little fanny out of bed and on the road through the beautiful countryside of western Utah and all of Nevada this morning. "Have you got everything," she asks me as we are leaving the hotel. "Absolutely, I reply."

So we get to Reno and the Fairfield Inn and start unpacking the car, only to find out that I left the hanging clothes bags in the hotel closest in Cedar City, Utah. Nice going, huh!!!

The good news out of this is that they found the bags and are sending them to us pronto but not until Monday, which means we get them Tuesday in California. I am ready to commit suicide and Mimi is saying "not to worry, they found 'em and they are shipping them."

So score me as the leader in the screw up department. Do you think there is a chance I'll do something again before this trip is over?

Yeah, me too.

Anyway, a long drive today through most of Utah, which is not too bad for scenery, and then through Nevada, which has the longest stretches of straight road in the world. We odometered one stretch at 34 miles and another at 26, then gave up. You go over some mountain ranges along the way and then hit these valleys of desert that seem to go on forever and look exactly like the one you just went through.

But, we made it in good time (minus the hanging bags of course), arriving in Reno about 5 o'clock. We are having dinner with my sister and her husband tonight, will see Barb's new great grand daughter tomorrow morning and then take off for California. Oh yes, I think there is a shopping trip somewhere in there to get clothes to wear until the bags arrive. it's good we have suitcases full of some clothes. I have some nice t-shirts and shorts, which is all I need.

There are no good landscape stories today. But the last two days in Utah at Bryce and Zion were just simply wonderful and something we will never forget.

I'll keep scoring points!

Happy Trails.