Day 68 Nevada Middlegate Station to Fallon 59 miles Total So Far: 4,377 miles Distance to Home: 364 miles     Jan’s husband is picking her up today from wherever she ends up so she’s in no hurry to get going and to be honest, neither am I. Middlegate Station, at the eastern end of […]

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Day 67Nevada Austin to Middlegate Station 71 miles Total So far: 4,318 miles Distance to Home: 434 miles As I attempt to drift asleep, I hear the muffled voice of some heavily accented Nevadan discussing the external battery which I plugged in at the main campground building but I’m too close to sleep to get […]

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Day 66 Nevada Sagebrush Expanse to Austin 57 miles Total So Far: 4,247 miles Distance to Home: 505 miles It’s cold when I wake up and the sun has shrouded itself in thick fog, wisps of it drifting across the frigid basin. I stay in my sleeping bag while eating breakfast, banishing the gnawing lonely […]

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