Utah and Nevada: Day 1

So today was the first day of my summer vacation with my husband! Yay! A long driving day...we are on our way from Colorado to the West coast, so today was about 12 hours driving all the way across Utah and all the way across Nevada (we're spending the night tonight in Reno). We drove highway 50...billed as "The Lonliest Highway in America," and it was pretty lonely, but more cars than I remember eight years ago when I was first here and remember driving for half an hour to an hour and not seeing a soul.

One of the cool kitsch-y things along Highway 50 is the shoe tree (above). Actually, this is the NEW shoe tree...the original shoe tree was, according to news reports, cut down (vandalism) in January.

The story behind the shoe tree is that newlyweds were on Highway 50 and arguing...one threw the other's shoes into the tree so they couldn't leave, and then they made up and the other reciprocated, and people have been throwing their shoes in the tree ever since.

We didn't leave any shoes, but I love to stop for things like this.

Will post again Monday...camping this weekend with some of my best freinds from college in Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California...absolutely cannot wait!

XO