The west is the best, but our last Libre morning began in a cloud leaking tiny corn snow crystals which became fluffier and fluffier as we closed the house, emptied the refrigerator and moved into the refrigerator of Monday, travel not looking promising as the snow looked like it might last all day but instead turned to rain with iffy roads by Gardner;

At the Custer County Line the highway was dry under overcast skies…Monarch was sketchy at one small point [some idjit in an SUV pulling into the passing lane as I was passing her in the ice], but the run to the Gunnison for lunch  [cold by the cold lake while a Fedex truck dozed in the parking lot] was otherwise uneventful…

L. drove from Montrose past various real estate opportunities and, following a stop in Rabbit Valley to let the dogs out, it rained pretty much all the way across Utah…

Into the early-seeming dark from Salina there were snow flurries, so much so it was hard to find the turn for 50 at Holden, but after Delta they cleared; we made the Border and its Inn by eight, seven Nevada time, stayed for dinner and the night with Utah TV news…wet blizzards, avalanches and bizarrely edited video clips.  Morning gave us a different sky;

Tuesday, except for the idjit [yet another, but similar] in the Prius who slowed to nearly a stop directly ahead of us at the beginning of the cloud shown above, was all day pretty good, pretty empty and pretty dry after breakfast in Ely; we crossed the state to lunch in wind at the old Pony Express site near Cold Springs…

Mechanical sightings at Frenchman and real estate opportunities enlivened our progress towards Pyramid Lake…Dixie Valley, Salt Wells, Fallon, Hazen, Fernley, Wadsworth, Nixon…

…more real estate opportunities and up to Wall in time for a small walk and building inspection before the sun sets…

Wednesday at the site, workers working, a first watercolor of the year and then more or less first thing Thursday down the road as the crew came back,

Down the dirt past various road graders under flat low skies to damp Benicia around two with a leaking rear wheel bearing, tired ‘n’ all but all ok, I’d say…

Back to darkness, our old friend…no sign of sunlight and past eight a.m….

 

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