Day 2: Nevada, Utah and Colorado

Check out of Eureka and get fuel in Ely.


Clear sailing to Ely. "The world's most deserted highway" does have a few fellow travelers however.


Continue on 50 East past Great Basin National Park and into Utah.

Pick up 49ers/Falcons game on Salt Lake City AM radio station.

Lunch and fuel at Delta, Utah.

Continue East on 50 to Holden where 50 joins 15 North for 12 miles.

Turn off 15 at Scipio and pick up 50 East (which actually heads South).


50 joins eastbound Interstate 70 at Salina.


Mid-Utah has spectacular badlands/canyonlands.

Continue East on combined 50/70 and gas up at Green River, Utah.


Enter Colorado around sunset

Check into the Grand Junction, Colorado Days Inn. Grand Junction is a big town with a brewpub, but we find dinner at hotel convenient.

Catch "Something About Mary" at local theater. Parts of this funky Ben Stiller/Cameron Diaz picture are painfully funny in teenage locker room way.

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