I’ve spent a lot of time on Nevada’s US 50. I go up to Fallon 3 times a year to augment their people on the Fallon Tactical Training Range. I love that road. The scenery is amazing. The two playas between Fallon and Middlegate, the mountains and the Northern Nevada desert are beautiful. The stretch between Middlegate and Austin is one of the longest,straightest stretches I’ve ever driven. US 50 is by far my favorite road.
It is pretty nice. Probably some of the offshoot roads heading north from 50 are pretty desolate too.
Check my post #47
Coming home from my 2nd around-the-USA motorcycle tour, I got caught in an early snow storm on Highway 50 in Utah about 10 miles from the Nevada state line. I am on 2 wheels and I slowed down to about 30 mph to insure I wouldn’t slip on the snow building up on the pavement. Of course, visibility was like 50 feet or less. I was terrified some semi was going to run up my backside at 55 mph in the snow storm. I hit the world’s worst casino at the Nevada state line but it let me get off the highway and gave me a bed for the night until the weather cleared the next day. Of course I learned it was still snowing over Ely, so to get back to San Francisco, I had to backtrack and head up to Salt Lake City and take I-80 back to California.
Oh well... Every day touring on a motorcycle is either a great day or a good story.
My first motorcycle tour of the USA was 2 months and 9,000 miles on I-80 to the east coast and I-10 back to California. My 2nd motorcycle tour of the USA was 2 months and 12,000 miles on old Route 66 to the east coast and I-90 back to California via 50 that didn’t work out so I had to backtrack to 80.
Retirement is going to be a lot of road trips. It is getting darn expensive though. Really expensive. Well, you can’t take it with you.