July 21st, Drive to Ely Nevada

Friday, July 21, 2006
Day 26
Drive to Ely, Nevada KOA

Today we drove from Fernley to Ely Nevada. We drove on Route 50. It was a more interesting route than I-80 that we took into Nevada last week. The scenery was definitely better. At one point we drove through a small town, went up some switchbacks to climb roughly 1000 feet, and encounter a massive amount of huge black crickets. It was incredible to see them for about a mile. They looked like gravel piles that were alive. They were all over the roadway and many were squished. We pulled over to examine them more closely and it was really freaky. I don’t know if they were really “crickets” or not, but they looked like giant crickets that were black in color. Weird and gross!

The KOA that we are staying at is very nice, with high speed internet, truly. It started to thunder and we had a bit of rain this evening, and it is still raining now. The temperature is cool, for a change, and it is quite refreshing. The only bad thing is that I really wanted to sit outside for a while. Oh well.

Sheldon and Brianna are working on Sheldon’s birthday gift from Grandma Owls, the Bionicle. It has now taken over my bed. Oh, they cleaned it up until tomorrow. How nice!

Tomorrow we will drive to Cedar City, Utah, where we will stay for three nights as we visit Bryce and Zion National Parks.

Thanks for the great times Aunt Sharri and Uncle Jim! I miss you already!