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The Home Stretch, Balls of Joy, and the End

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The drive from Salt Lake City to Reno is fairly easy.  It’s all on Interstate 80 and the speed limit basically ranges from 75 to 80 MPH.  It should be simple for two cars to make their way together across the Great Basin and into the Biggest Little City.  Such was not the case.

I lost Travis and Lorena almost immediately as I followed a truck onto the onramp not realizing the light was red.  Too bad. So sad.  Off I went along I-80, the GPS finally off, the music blasting, my bed waiting for me when I got home.  Between Salt Lake City and Wendover there is a long section where you drive through the salt flats.  It’s desolate and beautiful.  photo(18)

Along these flats there is an art installation that is for back of a better description balls on a stick. Yes, balls on a stick.  It’s real title is the Tree of Utah.  It is approximately 90 feet high, with an inscription with the lyrics from Ode to Joy.  The State of Utah owns these joyous balls that resemble tennis balls with some shattered on the desert around it.  Remember how I was amazed at how poorly the three of us handled our logistics on this last day?  Remember the balls are in the middle of nowhere and 90 feet in the air.

My traveling companions missed it.  They completely blew past it.  They saw my car, parked alongside the road, thought I was a cop and so slowed down to make sure they weren’t pulled over and totally missed the balls in the air.  Then they stopped at a rest stop and just short of Wendover, I thought, my lord Wendover is just a few miles up, I can use the bathroom there.  I went to the wrong gas station because I went to one in Utah and not Nevada and someone in the group was having a protest against Utah.  We finally met up again in Elko.  There temporary Michiganders were craving some home style Port of Subs subs and so we ate there.

Our stomach’s filled with Nevada sub goodness we hit the road again.  Away we went across Nevada on 80.  The towns became specs in the rear view mirror as quickly as they’d come into view…Battle Mountain, Winnemucca, Lovelock, Fernley.  A final winding road along the Truckee River and bam…home was there.  I stopped by Super Burrito for a welcome home dinner and promptly found my couch, the controller for the TV and called it a trip.


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