Westward Ho Day 3

We got around and out the door right at 8 am this morning. Without too much difficulty we found our road to take us to Pine Canyon Road from Midway over to Salt Lake City. We have mainly been on the Interstates  this trip and will be again most of today so we want to steal an hour to take a scenic route to get us back to our roots and back onto I80. Himself drove and i was glad of that as the road started out pretty narrow and really curvey and wind ie with switchbacks and hairpin turns. It climbed right up to 8600' altitude. Even though it rained and the temperature dropped to 58 degrees at the top it was a perfect way to start the day. 100 miles from Salt Lake City, past the Great Salt Lake to Nevada later, we ate a picnic lunch and then climbed into the Jeep to hit it hard to Reno. Nevada was interstate all the way except for a 40 mile wild goose chase looking for bulldozed ghost towns. Nevada marks ghost towns on the map so we took off cross country hoping to find old foundations and artifacts from the Gold Rush era but it was not to be. They are all gone now we think. What I will remember about Nevada is . . . Trucks hauling goods from one end of this great country to the other. So many big rigs!! Also buttes and rocks and mountain passes. Other than ghost towns there was nothing to lure us off the interstate. But maybe we just had a bad map? Tonight. We are worn out!  We have had two time changes in two days and have driven a couple of thousand miles. Tomorrow . . . California or bust!!