Day 1 - CA to Wells, Nevada

We started pretty early in the morning as we had 600 miles ahead of us – our destination was Wells, Nevada – a small town situated at the intersection of I-80 and Highway 93. Since we started on a Saturday morning, the traffic was not as horrendous as expected on I-80. We crossed the entire California before we reached the Tahoe region. The drive on I-80 near Tahoe had spectacular sceneries that we captured:


Our plan was to have a lunch break at Reno. As soon as we entered the Nevada state, the landscape changed immediately:

Even before we realized, we had crossed Reno – it was such a small city. Anyway, we stopped on a travel plaza, picked up some sandwiches, filled up gas and started again. The Nevada landscape was starkly different from California – with mild vegetation on plain lands surrounded by mountains:

As we headed towards Wells, we saw this snow-capped mountain in the middle of the desert – weird, isn’t it:

We thought that in the middle of the desert we will not be needing any winter wear – but we were astounded to learn that the temperature fluctuates like crazy – from low 30s to high 80s within a day. We were afraid that such a small town may be xenophobic, but surprisingly the inhabitants were extremely courteous. We had dinner in a small country inn surrounded by predominantly caucasians with cowboy hats (all of them)!!! That was quite a change from the diverse california crowd.