The Oregon Trail Motel as mentioned is AA 1960/70 model. Offered a continental breakfast, which you had to take back to your room to eat. Offered the usual fare, oats, toast/jam and coffee or tea. While walking over to get our breakfast, we got talking to a fellow guest (who was walking her corgi), she mentioned how she was going to spend the day at one of the local hot springs. We got to talking and remembered going to one with Tim in 1980. A quick Google search, we found two hot springs just 10 miles away (Mircle and Banbury). A quick stop at a dollar store to buy towels and off we went.
Spent a very relaxing 45 minutes in the hot springs (located next to the Snake River). We shared the pool with a group of Aqua yoga's - about 5 women and one guy. Seemed to be an ideal way to keep yourself flexible. Got to talking to the guy after. He is a farmer just outside of Buhl. He has a Maori shearer leave his RV with him while he returns to NZ for the summer. Then this shearer leaves NZ in May to go shearing in England before hitting the US, where he picks up his RV and does the rounds shearing. He has been leaving his RV with this farmer for the past 6 years.
After this great start to the day we hit the road to Wells, Nevada.
We stopped at Wells for lunch. Nice, small enough for us, but very expensive. We did drive down to downtown Wells looking for a local resturant. No go. Wells is a ghost town. It seemed like all the businesses were shut down. All retail and commercial activity now centres around the interstate exchange. Wells is a place to join an interstate to either Reno or Salt Lake City.
So, we hit the road, cruising at 80 mph.
We passed lots of mineral mining activities. Interstate driving is not for the faint heart, why, even the 18 wheelers were driving at 75 mph. Some of the trucks had 3, not 2 trailers attached. Looked very impressive.
Made Winnemucca around 4 pm. Checked into our motel (another 1960/70 model). The room was very large and spacious.
Had a walk around to check out the local environment and eating options for the night.
We settled on the Winnemmucca Inn and Casino. A nice meal, but the resturant was full of Cowboys and girls. The men were wearing 10 gallon hats (they don't take them off inside), very large brimmed hats, bandanas and sneakers (go figure). The cowgirls wore baseball hats, cowboy boots with Spurs.
From my observation the women went to the salad bar but the big hats ate steak. A real interesting evening. These 4 + hours of driving are starting to become a drag (needed Regan to share the load).
The days was sunny and warm. Got up to 60 degrees F in the afternoon.
So another day down and closer to Yosemite
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