Off on a cross-country road trip -- the first in decades -- having finished up grading for the semester and The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel II - The Priest of Varlungo Lies with Monna Belcolore (20 pages total), and
sent monthly remittances.
Across the Central Valley,
into the Sierra Nevada foothills,
stopping
at
Gold
Run,
up
into
the
high
country:
Yuba Gap,
Big Bend,
Castle Ridge,
Donner Summit
and
Canyon,
Truckee
Meadows
and
Canyon,
Bronco
Bend
Spires,
Floristan
Ridge,
Farad
Peaks,
to
Nevada.
From
here,
it's
Reno
Valley,
the
Lower
River
Canyon,
a
petrol
stop
at
USA
Golden
Gate,
Clark,
Derby
Cliffs
Bend
Dam,
Orchard,
Wadsworth.
Soon
we're
out
in
the
Forty-
Mile
Desert,
Granite
Point
approaching
Lovelock
(the farthest east managed on the attempt to reach Chris's graduation years ago)
and
on
the
long
transit
along
the
Humbolt
River,
Basin-
and-
Ranging
towards
Winnemucca,
around
Button
Point (the most northly spot on today's journey),
up
to
Goldconda
Summit,
down
confronting
Battle
Mountain
(woeful
abbreviation),
stopping
at
the
Beowawe
Rest Area
(near where Jacob Donner was bannished from the Donner Party -- his daughter kept him provisioned secretly at a distance, and good thing, too, since he later became one of the rescuers of what remained of the group, snowbound near present-day Donner Lake),
then
amidst /
over Emigrant Canyon / Summit,
past Palisade
Junction.
After
making
our
way
through
Carlin
Tunnel,
against
Cliffs
and
Pinacles,
arrive
in
Elko,
where
we
check
in and
discover that Harriet's wallet is AWOL. Begin the tedious process of cancelling cards,
break for a sober dinner, and
return to an email with the title bar "Found Wallet"! Jane Evgenia discovered it in a Beowawe stall (probably the next one in). She and her husband waited for an interval, hoping for our return, then continued heading east on their trip back from Napa / Tahoe. With research online, she found Tisha on Facebook, a link to Goat Hall Productions, Harriet's email address, and voila! We determine to rendezvous with them in Salt Lake City tomorrow, and are treated to a much more peaceful night's sleep, on the 58th day of summer, high up 4 to 84 (Reno, 88 / Elko, 80)...
