Day 7 : Driving

Not much to report today, we left Mammoth about 9.00 am and arrived in Elko in The middle of Nevada about 4.00 pm. Most of the day was driving, we stopped at a Maccas this morning for coffee, then at the Lazy K campground in Lovelock to eat our sandwiches for lunch, and that was about it. We had expected Nevada to be very flat with a straight road throughout he middle of it, wasn't quite as we expected. There were lots of straight roads, but they were through wide flat valleys surrounded by chains of low hills and sometimes higher mountains.  It ended up being an interesting drive, because the scenery kept changing, though there was little evidence of human habitation through much of the area we drove, occasional pockets of farming and areas of mining. Lots of salt flats and at one stage we wondered why there were rows upon rows of pyramid shaped bunkers made of earth. Discovered that is the US Army armaments storage facility. Another long drive tomorrow, hoping the weather is as kind to us tomorrow, as we have a couple of mountain passes to navigate. Lucky we are not experiencing the storms they are on the east coast!
Not a lot to add - (that will give away the change of authors!)
We both needed a loo stop in Fallon and drove around town looking for a public loo - still don't know if they have them but ended up in a pharmacy (supermarket size) and found one, this may be a tactic we use in future. We were stopped in the Main Street at a red light when this air raid (very very VERY loud) siren went off - we looked everywhere to see what it was and where the state militia were rolling out from - no one else cared and it looked like a 12 midday test/normal event - jeez, don't they know nervous Aussies on the wrong side of the road are in town!!!
Interesting info - Margo counted 13 airplane con trails at once today without looking out my side of the car! It seems we are at the middle of the aircraft routes as well as the middle of USA.