Day 9: The real report

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• Distance : 858 km (533 mi)
• Distance totale (distance so far): 6151 km (3,822 mi)
• Temps de route (driving time) : 7 heures et 43 minutes
• Vitesse moyenne (average speed) : 111 km/h (69 mi/h)
• Consommation (gas mileage) : 7,49 L/100 km (31.4 MPG)
• Nombre de sacs de chips (# of bags of chips) : 0
• Température minimale (lowest temperature) : -17 C (2 F)

We've finally arrived in San Francisco and have been very busy, too busy to blog. Now we have a little time and here is the report for our ninth day, from Salt Lake City to Reno.

We started the day with thick fog, just enough to prevent us to see the depressing landscape, ie the salt flats. We went by the Bonneville Speedway and continued on our way to Nevada.

Pretty much the only sight of Utah we got.

Here is a salt flat, we believe.

After this, the fog cleared away right before we entered Nevada. The views were nice, plains with occasional snowy mountains.

Here is Nevada!

Nevada landscape.

For lunch, we stopped in the little town of Winnemucca, where we went to a Basque restaurant, the Martin Hotel. The building is listed in the National register of historic places. Tables are set up family-style. We had some delicious food: Fried sweetbreads and chorizo, with fantastic mash potatoes (just don't tell us how much butter was in them).

Chorizo (spicy!) with mash and homemade country gravy.

We finally arrived in Reno, where we met our friends Betsy and Dan, and their lively dog Wader. We went on a walk (which was more for us than the dog) and then went out to Reno for dinner and some casino action. Susan put a dollar in a slot machine. She could have won $450,000 but ended up losing a dollar. Maybe she'll be more lucky next time!