On to Winnemucca

Water Canyon

We woke up this morning to an 18 degree nip in the air.  The Jeep started up with no problems but it did not like it very much and chugged a little for about 15 seconds.  That is a long time when you consider that it usually purrs like a kitten right off the bat.  We headed on into Burns, and did a brief tour of the town taking pictures of all the artwork that we found.  We stopped at 3 LFL’s and dropped off some more books. Next we dropped by the local Mc Donalds to sponge their wifi so we could check email and Susie could download her free puzzle for the day.  Finally we hit the road heading for  Winnemucca.  Believe me there is nothing much between Burns and Winnemucca.  Lots of open lonely  road.  We arrived at our campsite about 4:40, cranked the generator and had supper.  Yummy Dinty Moore canned stew!?  There were some ominous clouds overhead but by 7 they had moved off and left us with clear and starry skies.  It is very dark out.  We are camped up in the hills South of Winnemucca which lies in a valley.  We are at Water Canyon Camp Ground.  Above us there is a coating of snow and a lot of left over clumps of snow around us.  It will be a cold night but we have a heater.