Brave Girls Road Trip - Day 2

Sunrise over Reno, and the day, the very long day, begins...

So just 421 miles to Boise, right?

It started out fun and giggly.

Taking turns driving.

After an hour or so, though, we all sort of realized at the same time that this is a very

BLEAK ROAD....

Clear, hot, and dry with long long views of long stretches of flatness and distant rocky hills.

Not a place one would want to break down in.

Services and rest stops were very few and far between. 

And when we did make a pit stop, it was, well, really the pits!

We decided to title this day, "The Brave Girls Brave Nevada Restrooms".

This was a very depressing monument (one of many) and I'm sorry that I appear to be laughing.

I wasn't being callous, I was really just caught up in understanding first hand that this

Forty Mile Desert really still is a "barren waterless wasteland"!

The pioneers really were the BRAVE ones - we have it so easy in our modern life.

Honestly, we just spent most of the day in the car, 

and we all took lots of shots of the wide vistas that we were seeing, 

but photos just don't capture the expansiveness, the endlessness.

Part of the drive takes you through the southeastern tip of Oregon - but it looks just like Nevada.

We did take a Brave Girl moment and got off the beaten track to go check out this historic monument

It is the grave of Sacagawea's son, the youngest member of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

Touchingly, there are tribal artifacts still being put on his grave.

There's Kelli and I taking a "rest" at a picturesque stop in eastern Oregon.  When in Rome....

This next photo is my fave so far.  This really is "big sky" country.

And our dear Michelley just had to stop and climb the round hay bales, 

or at least attempt it.  We got some good videos of her in action.

Finally, after crossing over into Mountain Time (and losing an hour), we got to

the Idaho border....

and from that moment on, the ride, the terrain, the feelings start to lift.

We checked into our hotel in Boise finally (after Heather led us astray).

We CAN NOT wait until tomorrow and the start of the Brave Girls Camp!!!!