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The Roads Less Traveled
Oct. 14th, 2018 07:00 pmWe are home. This morning we packed out of our wonderful suite at the Tonopah Station Hotel, grabbed breakfast and coffee from Beans and Brews (the former McDonald's, now a coffee and convenience store; it's an upgrade in our opinion) across the road from the hotel, and set off for home.
We had piles of time today and a full tank of gas, and that meant that when the mood struck us to stop and look at something, particularly things we've previously seen and said, "We should go look at that when we have the time," we did so.
( All Roads Lead Away from Silver Peak )
Returning to US-95/6, we continued past Coaldale and into Mineral County, where we turned off onto the only barely marked Candelaria Road. We've seen signs for Candelaria before, both here and on the cut off (NV-360), so we decided to satisfy our curiosity about another old mining town that once had its own rail connection on a branch of the Carson & Colorado Railway.
( The Road Even Less Traveled )
Maybe someday we'll try coming at Candelaria from the north over the dirt road that might be the right of way of the C&C branch that served the town during its heyday.
Meanwhile, back on the highway, we put miles under the wheels and stopped at Hawthorne for lunch.
( Bombs Away )
Kuma Bear had his own adventures in Hawthorne. Fortunately, no minivans were harmed, nor did Bear get honeyed at the El Capitan casino.
After Schurz, we made no more side trips, and headed home via Fallon. We unloaded the minivan and Lisa headed off to bed, as she was very tired, having not slept well last night and having done most of today's driving.
I found when we got home that I'd accidentally left the oil-electric heater in the living room plugged in, which wastes electricity, but was probably for the best, as temperatures in Fernley have been dipping below freezing (unlike Tonopah, which was hovering just above freezing overnight while we were there). As it stands, things are a bit chilly, but tolerable.
I took a four-day weekend although our planned trip was only three, in case of mishaps, like the time we had to stop short of home and spend the night in Hawthorne on our trip back from San Antonio due to fatigue. We didn't have to do that on this trip, but I'm glad I have that extra day, so I don't have to be up early tomorrow and because I need to get the windshield replaced due to the rock incident as soon as possible. Lisa thinks the cracks in the windshield are spreading. I hope the place here in Fernley can do it so I don't have to go into Reno/Sparks tomorrow to take care of it.
This was a really good exploration day. We're glad we got to take some side trips and see things that most people don't get to see by looking at back-roads of Nevada. It's been a good trip and I was happy to take something approaching an actual vacation that didn't include an SF convention in it, albeit that due to our Conrunners' Disease, we kept thinking about how we'd fit one of our conventions into Tonopah, at least as an academic exercise over meals.
We had piles of time today and a full tank of gas, and that meant that when the mood struck us to stop and look at something, particularly things we've previously seen and said, "We should go look at that when we have the time," we did so.
( All Roads Lead Away from Silver Peak )
Returning to US-95/6, we continued past Coaldale and into Mineral County, where we turned off onto the only barely marked Candelaria Road. We've seen signs for Candelaria before, both here and on the cut off (NV-360), so we decided to satisfy our curiosity about another old mining town that once had its own rail connection on a branch of the Carson & Colorado Railway.
( The Road Even Less Traveled )
Maybe someday we'll try coming at Candelaria from the north over the dirt road that might be the right of way of the C&C branch that served the town during its heyday.
Meanwhile, back on the highway, we put miles under the wheels and stopped at Hawthorne for lunch.
( Bombs Away )
Kuma Bear had his own adventures in Hawthorne. Fortunately, no minivans were harmed, nor did Bear get honeyed at the El Capitan casino.
After Schurz, we made no more side trips, and headed home via Fallon. We unloaded the minivan and Lisa headed off to bed, as she was very tired, having not slept well last night and having done most of today's driving.
I found when we got home that I'd accidentally left the oil-electric heater in the living room plugged in, which wastes electricity, but was probably for the best, as temperatures in Fernley have been dipping below freezing (unlike Tonopah, which was hovering just above freezing overnight while we were there). As it stands, things are a bit chilly, but tolerable.
I took a four-day weekend although our planned trip was only three, in case of mishaps, like the time we had to stop short of home and spend the night in Hawthorne on our trip back from San Antonio due to fatigue. We didn't have to do that on this trip, but I'm glad I have that extra day, so I don't have to be up early tomorrow and because I need to get the windshield replaced due to the rock incident as soon as possible. Lisa thinks the cracks in the windshield are spreading. I hope the place here in Fernley can do it so I don't have to go into Reno/Sparks tomorrow to take care of it.
This was a really good exploration day. We're glad we got to take some side trips and see things that most people don't get to see by looking at back-roads of Nevada. It's been a good trip and I was happy to take something approaching an actual vacation that didn't include an SF convention in it, albeit that due to our Conrunners' Disease, we kept thinking about how we'd fit one of our conventions into Tonopah, at least as an academic exercise over meals.
