The Loneliest Road

US 50 bills itself as "The Loneliest Road," and, I would add, also the ugliest, and not just the scenery. After stimulating the local economy in Carson City, we drove 50 all across Nevada and through Utah all the way to Provo. I'll have a couple or three posts on sights along the way but wanted to add these from the road itself.

Not the official signage

Salt flats

Writ in sand...

Sand Mountain...reminiscent of larger, more extensive dunes in
France, the North Island, etc.

Hundreds and hundreds of largely uninhabited miles, basin and
range, basin and range, basin and range....

Savage-camping on a pass east of Austin, NV

Occasional pioneer stuff along the way; this in a sort of park in
Eureka, NV, where we stopped for lunch in the shade; my one
abiding image of US 50 will be of the conspicuously armed
paramilitary assholes "guarding" the Chevron station in Eureka

Sculpture on a spur from 50 to Great Basin National Park

Fence sculpture

Somewhere east of Baker, NV, now probably in Utah, a
GoogleEarth street-view car passes us at a very high rate of
speed...

Evidently photographing this gorgeous terrain

Let's see, last time I photographed one of these was in 2010,
I think, on El Camino Real, in Palo Alto...

Just west of Hinckley, Utah, one of the better
shoe trees

Nearby shoe stripling

A few that didn't stick...