A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

When you arrive at the western end of the Great Salt Lake, you’re in Wendover, Utah, and then almost immediately, you’re in West Wendover, Nevada, and it’s an hour earlier. Yes, the time change! Such a sweet sensation for us travelers heading westward.
All these travel days are so full of new sights with sounds and [...]

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We see a billboard for a Ramada Inn in Ely, and since it is dark already, I call ahead on my cell phone and try to get rooms. The woman at the Ramada says she has rooms available, but they are on the second floor of the “annex” and we’ll have to carry our bags [...]

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The next morning, we all meet in the Jailhouse hallway and walk over to the Hotel Nevada for breakfast. The special steak and eggs for me. Cheap. Blueberry pancakes for Bob. Jarrett gets his usual: raisin bran.
“Actually I’ll have two orders of raisin bran,” says Jarrett.
“You want four little boxes?” says the spry waitress. “One [...]

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It’s about 75 miles on that Loneliest Road, Route 50, from Ely to the town of Eureka, Nevada. There’s some awesome high desert beauty between the two towns, but not a whole lot more. The town was supposedly named for the victory cry of one of the earliest miners in the area. Eureka!
In the car, [...]

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4:30 PM The road ahead demands our attention, but we love to dawdle, to check out one more thing, like the unusual Lincoln Highway marker on the corner by the courthouse. It says this is the General Motors Section of the Lincoln Highway. Hmm. As usual, we spend too much time in Eureka.
5:45 PM We [...]

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Several miles later we stop in the wee town of Hazen for gas and a pee at the Hazen Market, an old canopy gas station. Jarrett’s middle name is “Hazen” so he’s happy to be stopping here in such a well named Nevada town, and this independent station’s a wonderful old place, undoubtedly another story [...]

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It’s already dark when we get to the outskirts of Reno and try to find the old Lincoln Highway route into town.
Thanks to a brusk Asian cop in a gas station, we get onto Prater Way, turn left, and after a while, it becomes Fourth Street in Reno. For a while, we start to [...]

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Bob and I meet for breakfast at the casino’s coffee shop. Jarrett is editing the video clip we worked on last night, so he stays in his room and misses the granola-yogurt- fresh-fruit bar that he would truly appreciate. It was a Jarrett-friendly breakfast.
We all want to be ready for this day. California, here we [...]

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Often when tooling along what-you-might-call the Lincoln Highway today, you can choose to follow the exact oldest possible route, searching out little pieces of roadway that were once the highway, or you can just follow the old highway’s basic path, taking advantage of interstates and bypasses and high-speed travel. While descending from the Donner Pass, [...]

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It’s hot and nearly two-thirty in the afternoon when we climb back into the van at the California capitol building, and I say, “If we’re going to eat lunch, we have to do it now.”
I noticed some signs for Old Sacramento, and I suggest that there may be some interesting eateries there. Bob says there [...]

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