Taking Your Time on the Loneliest Road
The Lincoln Highway runs through the emptiness of Nevada for 381 miles give or take with only a handful of stops along the way. There are eight or nine towns, a park or two, and mile after mile of two-lane road. If you’re on your way somewhere else it can be a long and boring drive, BUT, if the road is your destination then highway 50 offers plenty of charm along the way.
Driving slow and taking time to get out of the car to look around we saw mining towns, Pony Express stations, old forts, and frontier newspapers, all of them filled with the rich history of the west.
We spent a sunshiny morning walking the streets of Fallon Nevada and saw a hundred years of layered history, the twenties, thirties, forties, and more keeping each other company. Everywhere we looked there was evidence of an earlier time when places were made by people, not corporations.
A few hours later the road had taken us to Austin where we stopped at the Landers County Courthouse and met Donna Sousa.
