Ely

We didn't have to go far from Fallon today to see why Hwy 50 is called the loneliest road in America (also called the Lincon highway, dedicated to Abe Lincon). The road opened up and no other vehicles to be seen.

We were confused about signs pointing to a naval base in the middle of the desert?
Perhaps they were boating on the heat shimmer.
We fueled up in Austin Nv that had some pretty derelict buildings and what Vicki thought looked like the Bates Motel.
We passed some trailer parks complete with junkyard front yards and red necks.
Vicki pointed out to me some small twisters that was pulling sand up, she was concerned that they would grow into full blown tornados.
We had our first shower of rain 6 miles from Ely (pronounced E Lee) they were big raindrops and cooled us down quickly. The shower finished 3 miles from town and we were dry by the time we pulled in at 1300 hrs. Had I known we would have been so early I would have booked in West Wendover (120 miles  further)
As we ate our lunch, waiting for our room to be made up, there was a thunder storm, rain that lasted 10 minutes, then hot as again.
After setting up we went for a walk down main st. There are quite a lot of murals in the town.

 The Hotel Nevada has it's own walk of fame including
Lyndon B Johnson

Stephen King
Micky Rooney
Charlie Pride
and Gary Cooper
We stopped in a bar called Racks (not Hooters) for a beer, they had lots of deer heads around the walls and some photos of some pretty big racks.
After a spell at the motel it was back to Racks for dinner, it was closer than the Chinese restaurant. Next we went to the bar next door. It was a dark bar with 10 or so guests and two pool tables. Like in the movies everyone went quiet and looked as we walked in, we sat at the bar and everyone went on with their conversations. Near the end of our second drink some of the locals started to talk with us. I was talking with a 63 year old chap who had never been on a plane and had never seen the sea. He said that from what he had seen on tv, we had a beautiful country and wondered what the f@#k we were doing here.