Second Day

This time I'm going to try to get some pics in.  First -- just a roadside view south of Burns.  And from a billboard in Bend:  "Don't drive with chest pain" --  How could they have possibly known?  I consider it an invasion of privacy.  Also near Bend -- a ratty tent, tarp leanto, campfire encampment just off the road and very close to a nice faux-abobe building.  I suggested the building owner probably didn't like the tenter much but dw suggested the tenter was a second cousin from California who wasn't allowed to stay in the adobe house. 
   After the motel in Redmond,  we drove through Burns, Winnemucca, and are now in a Motel 6 in Fallon, Nevada.
   South of Burns we passed a cattle drive -- 50 cows (200 legs) three cowboys and a dog.  The West is alive and well.  In Burns we were up-close witnesses to a fender-bender between a giant red Ford pickup and a VW Beetle.  We just passed an intersection, found we were going in the wrong direction so I made a u-turn, which MIGHT have distracted the giant red pickup -- stopped at a stop sign --who pulled into the intersection and got broad-sided by the bug.  Everyone was going slow and damage was minimal.
   A noon highlight was the dead cow a mile north of Crane.  We don't really know it was dead.  We didn't stop to check it's pulse or anything, but it was either dead or was trying some sort of horizonal stiff-legged yoga trick. 
   North of Winnemucca a series of billboards advertised:  "A cold beer"  -- "A pretty lady to sit on your lap" -- "Truck access" -- "Wildhorse Saloon" --- Since we're in a small Honda 2-door sedan instead of a truck we decided not to stop.  Besides I didn't think dw would want a lady sitting on her lap, and If I have a woman sitting on my lap, I don't want her to be a lady either. 
   We  met some light snow flurries starting  at the Blue Mountain Pass (S. of Burns) and they continued through Winnemucca (with one heavy flurry)  -- in light of that we changed our planned route and have come through Fallon, instead of driving south from Winn.  to Austin and over a 7500' pass. 

   Here in Fallon we found a barber shop that could have been named for us:   And we passed an art gallery with a painting "Fortune Dreaming" that seems to be a pic of a woman getting it on with a carp.  We got some tex-mex for dinner and now we're watching "As Time Goes By" on PBS and eating an orange. DA