The Silver State

We slipped into western nevada during our trip to northern california in may 2002. It's a pretty desolate area. Lots of mountains and rocks, and not too many trees.Our first stop was the capital city, carson city. It was a nice, small town, with a small capitol building too! We also discovered that we were on the kit carson trail, (which is what that horseshoe marker picture is on the right).

About 10 miles away was virginia city, which was the setting for the town in the tv show "bonanza". The town is still preserved in its wild west look, although it has a number of ticky tack souvenir shops and the like.

From there we continued north to reno, "the biggest little city in the world", which I've wanted to visit since johnny cash wrote "folsom prison blues" (I shot a man in reno, just to watch him die). I took my biggest hit here at the circus circus casino downtown.

Feeling humbled, we hightailed it out of nevada and back to lake tahoe and our northern california tour.