Elko Vacations, Elko Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Right now we're in a motel in Elko, Nevada. When I look out the window I see nothing but rocks, dust and mountains rising in the distance. The motel is located on a small cliff on the edge of town. It gives the illusion of being in the desert in the middle of nowhere.This is the final stretch on our road trip to San FranciscoWe were supposed to be in Reno by now, but we're running behind schedule. We encountered some car troubles yesterday. (big surprise?)But let me back track and recap our l...

The northern route home. Well, part way.  If you have never taken the highway from Salt Lake City west to Elko, Nevada you have missed just almost absolutely nothing!  Oh, there are the Salt Flats, made famous by racing cars back and forth, but today as we came past we learned that even that is long gone.  And the rest of the landscape was loaded with a whole lot of nothing.  How do you blog about 250 miles of nothing?  At least the speed limit was high enough that ...