Day 14 - Burns, Oregon

Well, I thought I did a lot of driving yesterday - but today I made 460 miles. Actually it was easy driving today - cruise control, iPod, like sitting in my armchair at home but with moving scenery!

Back on the I-80W into Nevada, all the way to Winnemucca (where all the potatoes for Pringles crisps are dehydrated!!); also The Sundance Kid (but not Butch Cassidy) was part of the gang that robbed the bank there in 1900. There is a heritage here in northern Nevada from the Basque country - rather a similar landscape. I never realised how many mountains there are in Nevada - lovely to see them and drive through the mountain passes.

Had a quick lunch at Sid's Family Restaurant, then headed north on US-95 into Oregon and beautiful high green rolling hills all the way to Burns. There has been exceptionally high rainfall this spring, so many of the roadside verges are flooded; so more waterbirds to see - ring-necked duck, white-faced ibis, and long-billed curlew - and other birds too: several eagles and a western meadowlark (beautiful).