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Yellowstone is
truly a wonderful place and I could easily have spent six weeks
there but there were lots of other places I wanted to visit and I
decided to move on. My main destination now was Yosemite National
Park in California. I left the town of West Yellowstone and and I
was soon in Idaho. The highway followed the Snake River through
Idaho Falls past Pocatello and on to Twin Falls. There I turned
South and headed into Nevada. This highway was going through desert
scrubland the kind of scene I'd only ever seen in the movies. I had
decide that I would stop at Wells City.
Now this was
strange to me.... In Britain, a City is usually very old, usually
pretty big and
there is a cathedral..... Approaching Wells City, I passed a sign
saying Welcome To Wells City..... then there was nothing for
miles..... Eventually I reached a small town, which was in fact not
much more than a truck stop. Now don't let me take anything away
from the good people of Wells City, it's just that to me a
stranger in the land, I expected a CITY!!!
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Now heading along Interstate 80 my car wasn't going good. I had
tried without success to get through to the hire people, so I stopped quite early
in the day in Fernley. I had decided that I'd go to Reno the next day to change
my car. While in Fernley I went for a drink in a bar called "Another
Bar" The people there were very friendly, one person even went home to get a hat
for me and when he said he couldn't find it so the barmaid climbed a ladder to get
one off the wall  In the morning I took their advice and went to visit Pyramid
Lake. |
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I had to drive along a small desert road up in to the
mountains to get to here. The view of the blue crystal water was
astounding against the desert scenery. |
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I now went to Reno airport where I changed my car, I'd had no
intention of visiting any of the big cities on my journey but this was forced
upon me so I drove around the city for a while before heading toward Lake Tahoe. |
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Lake Tahoe is such a beautiful lake but very crowded. It was
really difficult to get the pictures I wanted. |
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The Sierra Nevada Mountains |
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There were many easier roads leading toward Yosemite but I
chose to take the high mountain passes, these pictures show why :) |
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The highway turned and this lake came into view like
shimmering crystal. With no outlets, Mono lake is one of the most saline lakes
in the world 2-3 times saltier than the ocean. The Unique geology and chemistry of the lake
causes a very unusual
kind of limestone called Tufa that forms towers under the water. All around
the lake edge there is a thick carpet of Alkali flies. |
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