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Only got three hours of sleep in Reno. Left at 9:30 a.m., Friday morning, 8/18/17.
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There was a close-call. As a semi-trailer passed me on I-80, it's tire started shredding and spewing rubber in every direction, but I escaped. Turned north on Highway 95 at Winnemucca, NV, and passed Winnemucca Mountain (left).
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I was surprised at the amount of agriculture near the Nevada-Oregon border. Lots of hay. Here is Santa Rosa Peak (?)
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It kept getting smokier and smokier as I proceeded into Oregon. Pretty soon, it felt like feeling my way, with the mountains mimicking an underwater trench. At Rome, on the banks of the Owyhee River, I asked about the smoke, but no one knew where it came from. Apparently there was a big fire near the Three Sisters in the Cascade Mountains, and I kept bumping into the smoke in Oregon all during the trip.
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Abandoned gas station in Rome in the pall.
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Across the Owyhee River.
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Arrived in Idaho.
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A view of Boise in the distance (where they had a big fire going on along I-84 at the time, and visible here).
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On the banks of the Snake River.
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Arrived in Boise! My cousins and hosts John & Marion Buzzell.
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