Coming back from Utah, I also took a "detour" through Nevada for a quick stop at the Mountain West Basketball Tournament with Rod and the Rat Pack, then drove up the middle of Nevada on the "second loneliest road in the world" (Nevada 93). The tournament was fun - BYU lost again, short of the championship, but there were some close games worth watching. Nevada 93 is straight and lonely. There are only a couple of towns along the entire route and you can crank up the tunes and cruise. Unlike Nevada 50 (the proclaimed Loneliest Road in the World), 93 parallels the Nevada mountain ranges, so there are fewer ups and downs. The more north I got, the more snow I found. I intersected Nevada 50 around Ely and could see Great Basin National Park and Mt. Wheeler from the western approaches. I decided to try a shortcut around Ely that I found on the map - almost got me into trouble over a high pass in some deep snow. But historically it was fun, as I followed the old Pony Express route into Schellbourne. I had no idea it went that way. The "snow route" also followed the route of the old Lincoln Highway - the first transcontinental automobile road from D.C. to San Francisco that was completed around 1914. Needless to say, the entire route of that road is no longer used for through travel to San Francisco. It originally went between Ibapah, Utah and Schellbourne, Nevada. Anyone out there ever been to Ibapah?
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