Hiway 50

I drove toward home thru Nevada on or near US 50, which is advertised as the Loneliest Road. It is pretty quiet through eastern and central Nevada, though there's more traffic than in the Australian outback. It's wiiiide open spaces, very relaxing to drive. The countryside is vegetated by sagebrush and pinyon/juniper forest...known as P/J to fire weather forecasters. Here the Lizards are hangin' in the P/J. This pic was actually taken on Nevada highway 722, which loops off of US 50 and is even less traveled than the Loneliest Road.

At the end of August, the sagebrush was blooming, softening the starkness of the scene.

The Lander County courthouse, in the town of Austin, on US 50. County courthouses are often architectural gems, many of them built in the 19th century. You could amass quite a neat photographic portfolio of old courthouses around the country.

Classic shot of US 50, between Eureka and Austin. I kinda messed up here...should have put the Lizards on the center stripe.

The Eureka county courthouse, in Eureka, Nevada. Although there are only 600 people in the town, for some reason there's a Best Western there. The town is verrrrry quiet. At first I wanted to say that the sidewalks had been rolled up at 6 o'clock on a Saturday night, but then I realized they had probably never been unrolled. As an Old Sloat, that's fine with me.