Due to our schedule at work, we have every Monday off. This left us with 3.5 days to drive from St. George, Utah back to Port Orchard, Washington.  More than enough time for a small road trip vacation on the end of our biking vacation.  😉  One of our favorite places to visit is the tiny (and I mean it! population of 12!) town of Fields, Oregon. Not much there but a service station/diner and a bunch of cows.  We had planned to visit during our annual summer road trip last year, but it didn’t work out, so we were going to make sure to pass through there on our way home!  Also “on the way” were the Bonneville salt flats.  Yes, the same fabled mecca of early hot rodding.  It was every bit as magical as I imagined it would be and someday I’m going to finish my little ’37 truck and go run it. The pictures don’t show at all the true vastness of the flats.  There are 2 racing lanes. Each 10 miles long and 80 feet wide. I’d think that at 300+ mph, that 80 feet gets pretty darn narrow.

 Since our little Mini Cooper had such a rough time on the trip down, we rewarded her with a little drive on the salt flats. 😉  No shenanigans were had since there are tons of tracks where people had tried to drive on the salt and sunk in the mud, but it was still neat just to be there. I LOVE THIS CAR!

 I had imagined northwest Nevada to look like the “typical” Nevada desert landscape… I was entirely wrong.. it’s nothing but lush green rolling hills, big skies, and snowcapped mountains in the distance.  Jason and I realized pretty quickly that we’re going to need to get our truck set up again and come back out here and explore more! Once you get off the highway, the roads turn to gravel and then dirt and just head off into the hills.  Expect to see more of this region sometime next year!