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| Saloon Virginia City |
This
morning we took Route 89 South, through a lot of forest land and our first stop
was in the small town of Greenville,
a town which is struggling to survive. Stopped at a small antique store in an
old house, and ended up having a long chat with Suzanne who works the store,
and found out a lot about the town and also some of the neighbouring areas,
really good local knowledge. Her dog put on quite and amazing performance for
us, quite the circus animal!
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| Suzanne and her dog |
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Next stop Quincy, the main city of
the region, which had an old main street with well preserved stores. Coffee and
the best every apple cinnamon roll (only one…we shared!) and a chat with the
owner, then on through more forestland to Portola.
The
countryside opened up to a large area of irrigated land with cattle and hay
land, enjoyed the change from the forests we had been in for the past few
days. Before long we were into Nevada and much more
arid lands with rocky hills.
We were
heading for Virginia City so had to take Route 395, a freeway which ran right
through the centre of Reno.
These really are not the sort of roads we enjoy, traffic travelling at 65mph
and knowing exactly where they are going while we are carefully following the
directions of Jilly, the GPS and trying to stay in the right lane…but we made
it. Reno is a large sprawling city in a huge
desert basin, but we were soon on a steeply climbing minor road up and over the
pass to Viriginia
City, we rose from 5000
feet about sea level to 6800 in a very short distance, the views were amazing.
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| Driving through Reno |
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| Reno from the hills |
Parked
Ruakiwi in the only RV camp in town, a great spot within walking distance of
the boardwalks and old shops of the town. It was late in the afternoon so
headed into town and decided that as we were in Virginia
City we needed to try out some of the bars. Most enjoyable but
sadly the oldies only managed 3 bars and a pizza before heading back to the
van. I had taken my small camera and was so disappointed as there were views
for miles and the colours on the distant hills as the sun set were just
amazing….it was too far to walk back for the big camera…..I never learn!
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| Main Street Virginia City |
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| Evening view from town |
Comments
Travel safe, shortly be able to swap pictures with you. Love Vicki n Ed.