Winnipeg to Fernley, Day 8: Elko NV to Fernley NV

[kevin_standlee]

Flickr is being balky and won't let me show the photos and video that I took today, so I will post the details when I get a chance. Those of you following me on Mastodon saw many of them as I took them, including the Snake.

Here was today's travel:

Thanks to getting to bed relatively early last night, we got away from Elko at 9 AM. Lisa predicted that she could get us home by 3 PM, despite us having to make restroom stops for me every 45 minutes or so. Both of us wanted to get home.

An earlier version of our plan included an option to "bail out" at Winnemucca for the night, and if we both had decided that we could go no farther when we got there about Noon today, we would have done it, like we did at Hawthorne NV on one of our previous road trips. However, Lisa said she was up to it, and I did everything I could to stay awake and help her stay awake. The stops at ever rest area and likely looking truck stop probably helped.

We got home at 2:45 PM. I was impressed. Amazingly, that means the entire trip from when we left Fernley House for the second time after a false start on July 13 to when we arrived home today on August 8 was five minutes short of 26 days. (My original Mastodon Toot shortly after we got home says 27 because I made a fence-post error calculating the duration.)

I've been keeping a mileage/stops diary for the entire trip. Here are the totals:

Outbound (July 13-July 18): 1861 mi/2995 km

Local distance around Winnipeg (July 18-July 31): 35 mi/56 km. Most of this time, the van was in for repairs and I was at Pemmi-Con or on the Churchill trip.

Return (Aug 1-Aug 8): 2109 mi/3394 km

Total: 4005 mi/6445 km

I think this is the longest road trip that Lisa and I have done in the Astro. She has done longer trips on her own, driving her Big Orange Van to Toronto, the small orange pickup to Boston, and both of us together in the Big Orange Van to Lexington KY to New Orleans to Las Vegas and then home on a SMOFCon trip when I was unemployed. But those trips were all more than twenty years ago, and less intense than this one was.

Again, I have no photos of today's trip yet, but maybe I'll get a chance to post them eventually. For now, I have to finish unpacking, getting my work computers powered up, and ready to go back to work tomorrow morning. And there is a lot of other stuff that has to be sorted out, including figuring out how to fix the Astro.

Comments

[delosharriman]

[quote]The entire trip … was five minutes short of 26 days. (My original Mastodon Toot shortly after we got home says 27 because I made a fence-post error calculating the duration.)[/quote]

I'll just call you Phileas Fogg, shall I?

[frith]

Flickr is being a pain. There is probably some manner of nagging advert blocking the usual 'share photo' interface. After uploading your pictures and refreshing the gallery, click the picture you want the code for as usual. On that black screen on which you see your picture and the menu, right-click and select 'show page source'. In the results will be bit you want, in all the sizes. o.jpg is for full size, z.jpg is for the medium 640 pixel size. Use your browser to find the z.jpg in the page: click "view" and select "find in page", enter z.jpg in the box, click next. The first hit will not only give you the z.jpg URL but also both the height and width of that resize. You can use that to swap parts in an old embed code, or put together the whole URL ending in z.jpg and just use the img src="Flickr URL z.jpg" HTML string.