Nevada: Sometimes You Want to Go Where You Can Drive and Drive and Drive

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, May, 2006 by Nicole Davis

Day 1. Reno to Carson City

I'm willing to give almost any place a second chance. Nevada, for instance. I'd visited my best friend Dagny in Reno before, but the one road trip we'd taken was to the Black Rock Desert-a place so dull, flat, and brown, I couldn't help but agree with the sign outside: welcome to nowhere. It didn't exactly inspire further exploration. But Dagny swore her state gets a face-lift every spring, when the sagebrush blooms and the desert turns a bright shade of green. That was enough to pique my interest, and we set off to cover 815 miles in four days.

Leaving Reno, I already start to see what she's talking about: A thick carpet of grasses covers the hills. We head south down Highway 395, and soon find blossoming cherry trees. Dagny and I planned...

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