The day began auspiciously, with a beautiful sunrise over the tiny gem of a lake that we had found to camp next to in Nevada on our way home from Yellowstone. We were in high spirits because we had made it as far as we had on the drive home.
Pulling into the little town of Ely, we looked up directions and had some breakfast at a tasty Mexican fast food place. Mike looked for reservations for somewhere for one more night, before we reached home on the Russian River.
“We can spend up to two nights in Yosemite,” Mike said, waving his phone. “That gets us closer to home than through Lake Tahoe.”
We’d had reservations at a campground in Lake Tahoe, but Mike had received an email alert that they had been canceled due to a nearby fire in the area.
We both love Yosemite and crossing the Sierras through that National Park seemed like a good solution, so he made the reservations. We set off on a whole new road and direction than we’d been before, Highway 6 through Nevada.
Highway 6 is a lot like Hig…
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