Boo & Rat's Big Adventure: Day 20

Miles today 446, were again short of the 500 needed, and we once again said "We'll make it up tomorrow". Do you know how difficult it is to NOT stop in canyons beautiful beyond belief, with rock coloration's impossible to describe? Not doable! I finally put on "Polly" our helmet cam and captured videos (I hope because I haven't seen them yet), and pics. I also strapped on my camera, putting it in sports mode, and snapped pics as we rode at 80 mph through the Utah canyons.

I can tell you the part of UT coming out of NV is zzzzzz, boring. We finally hit some "hills" and then went through zzzzz boring again. Flat, dry, and just nothing to write about.

But before all of that, we left our jail cell in Ely, NV at the Jailhouse Saloon and Motel, still following Hwy 50, the Loneliest Hwy. We may have made it 20 miles before stopping to photograph the distant mountains and for me, some beautiful yellow flowers growing alongside the road.

We then made it to Visitor's Center for the Great Basin National Park in Baker, NV. En route I saw a few birds of pray on telephone lines and told Kevin I wanted to photograph them if they were still there on the way out. After getting our "geek" books stamped and buying a few patches to have sewn on our vests (or chaps) and some stickers for the trunks of our bikes and our helmets, Kevin spotted an old rusted piece of a vehicle and went off to photograph that. Coming back from that he said he had seen the biggest rabbits in his life and they were too fast for him to get a pic of.

Off we left to see if the birds were still up on their perches. The first one was, and I was skeptical that he was just a vulture. But after getting some "OK" shots of him and using my Merlin app to to identify him, we realized we got several shots of a Golden Eagle! The app advised they were uncommon so we were thrilled to have seen one. Kevin actually saw a young one in flight and was able to identify it, but I missed it.

We played several "guess the number" games today to occupy ourselves (have I said we are easily entertained)? One game Kevin invented 2 days ago was to guess the day and time when we would see CORN (or in our lingo "Kern!" LOL) again. I said Thursday at 1:30 pm local time. He said Friday some time. We saw a big field of it today at 12:05 pm local time. Ding ding, I win. Yesterday he won most of the our "guess it" games.

We are now at a campground in CO alongside a river. It was not at all what we thought it would be. We should have gone another 47 miles to the next camping sight. This one is right next to I70 and is mosquito infested. I'm actually sitting next to the river shooting star shots (milky-way hopefully) with a mosquito net over my head. Kevin is back in the safety of our tent.

Well, trying to think of something exciting to write about, but failing miserably. In lieu, here's some pics. Videos will have to wait until we are on real WiFi. We are using our phones as a hotspot for pics.