Sage Brush and Tumbleweeds !!!!

Well, I can't say we had an especially fun day today. Unless you are a person who likes sagebrush and tumbleweeds, you would not enjoy the drive across the Nevada desert to Salt Lake City, Utah. Miles and Miles and MILES of nothing but desert. Nothing taller than 2 feet was seen all day!

It wasn't all that bad really, we talked and talked and was still free and enjoyed ourselves anyway.

Note to Penny at Avis car rental, I don't know what happened to the picture we took of you. I wanted to put it here on the blog but it must have gotten deleted or I didn't do something right with the camera or something because it is just not there......bummer.

Tonight we are in Salt Lake City and going to enjoy a bit of rest. We don't want to wear ourselves out the first week we are gone and we've covered a lot of miles in two days.

Note to Gail: forgot to include in yesterday's post that THOSE BROWNIES YOU SENT WITH US WERE DELICIOUS..... That was so nice of you to do, we really appreciated it.

We also forgot to tell you about a couple we ran into at dinner in Winnemucca last night. I swear if we had let her, this lady would have told us her entire life story! She and I made eye contact and she just walked over to our table and started talking. She told us about her divorce, her depression, and how she had some friends who insisted she go to the Elk's Lodge where she met "him" and pointed over to the table where her husband, clad in his best bib overalls cut off to be shorts, sandals with dark socks, scruffy full gray beard and long hair, sat. She was wearing her best bright blue cotton blouse with plastic cowgirl fringe across the bustline. Anyway, she said he came over to ask her to dance and that was all it took. He took her right over to meet his family and the rest is history. At that point, thankfully, the waitress brought our dinners and so our new friend went back to their table where they had their dinner of chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy. Of course, I'm teasing here, they were both very nice people, it was just odd that she told us so much of her life in just a couple minutes!

Today we toured Elko Nevada looking for a ballpark named after an old baseball friend of mine, Jay Kump. Todd, you guys met him went you were there. Mom, you might remember Jay and Charlotte? Anyway, we only had to ask directions twice and we found it, Kump Field. We took some pictures since I have heard all about Kump field (from Jay of course) for so many years and never got to see it. Now I have.

Those were just about the only pictures we took today, it just wasn't one of those picture-taking-kind-of-days. I'm sure tomorrow will be better. We are heading north to Jackson Hole and into Yellowstone after that. From all we have heard, that should be a beautiful area to see.

OK, so come on bloggers, post some comments and let me know how we are doing. Let us know you are out there. We are having so much fun we wish everyone was here with us. Well, maybe not, but you know what I mean!!! LOL

Love to you all and another post tomorrow.........
Wayne and Colleen