Saturday September 26, 2015
816 miles driven, 1+ walked
We were on the road from Breckenridge at 6:10a in the dark. This is what it looked like about 45 minutes later at Vail.
We stopped in Glenwood Springs for breakfast at the 19th Street Diner (per yelp) which was slow but really good. Bob: two eggs over hard with the yolks cracked, potatoes, Canadian bacon, biscuit. Me: two poached eggs, Canadian bacon, rye toast, sliced tomatoes. Place was full and we there 20 minutes after they opened. Service wasn’t great but think it was just our server.
From there we got gas and I got a drive-thru Americano (good) and we were on the road for the next 10 plus hours only stopping for gas and potty. Drove through Colorado to Utah and up to Salt Lake City and through Nevada. Always weird to go by the salt flats. The mound of salt is much bigger than when last drove by (Bob: “Baked potato!”)
We arrived in Winnemucca at the Town House Motel at 6:11p (we gained an hour at the UT/NV border). We walked the half mile or so to Ormachea’s for dinner. Since it is Basque, entrees come with soup, salad, sides, bread and a glass of Burgundy. Bob ordered the filet and I ordered the soup, salad and sides. Their minestrone-style soup is fantastic and I had two bowls.
Here is the table before the filet, fries, chorizo rice and braised garbanzo beans showed up…..
I had a 1/4 of Bob’s filet and tasted the rice (weirdly appealing) and garbanzo beans (really good but I was full) and a couple of hand fulls of the FANTASTIC fries. Stuffed.
We walked back to the room via a casino to try to place some parlay bets on NFL games but they only had weird machines to bet so we passed.
Full moon looks very different than last night.
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