Comments on: On the so-called “Loneliest Road in America”

By: G

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 03:48:48 +0000

100% accurate. The best E-W road in NV.

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 21:56:35 +0000

In reply to Brian Frey. Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.

By: Brian Frey

Brian Frey — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:40:13 +0000

Excellent story. That last line though. That’s the one. I must have read it 5 times in a row without even thinking before nodding my head in agreeance.

Enjoy walking in Muir’s footsteps. I’m excited to hear of you experiences there. I really enjoyed my short time there last year.

-Brian

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:11:25 +0000

Route 50 across Nevada has been on my list for some time. I hope to travel this route soon.

By: Dave Sailer

Dave Sailer — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:28:56 +0000

I went through Nevada in the spring of 1978, car camping in my 1973 Toyota Corolla, which I’d converted into the world’s smallest RV by removing the passenger and rear seats and replacing them with an L-shaped plywood platform. Saw at least part of this route. Lovely.

Things were a lot emptier then, even moreso in the late 1950s when the guy who gave me the car-conversion idea (my boss in the early 1970s) did the same thing in his VW Beetle, in between being a soldier and becoming a history museum curator.

There is a similar road in eastern Montana, somewhere. Between and connecting I94 and US2. I drove 80 miles without seeing another vehicle, or house, except for one rundown trailer way off to the side. No fences either. But that was back then. No telling what they’ve done to it by now, though that’s a particularly un-trendy part of the world.

Whenever I see a “No services for X miles” sign, I get tingly. Yes!