Friday 26 June 2015

Day 19 - Elko to Reno 585kms


Now running in first place we were the last of the competitive cars to leave the hotel en route to Reno and our hotel for the next two nights - another rest day, which is going to be most welcome!

We continue driving westwards towards Reno and take in more of the vast emptiness of Nevada, a real Wild West landscape with nothing other than low growing clumps of something! covering the dry & sandy terrain.


Little prairie dogs dodged back and fourth across the wide open road trying to avoid any passing traffic, you would think it more sensible to stay clear of the road especially when they have 1000's of acres to roam!


Two challenging regularities today, one on gravel and one on Tarmac 0/1 & 0/2 = 3 seconds in penalties for us in total for the day so quite happy with that thank you very much.
A number of other crews were suffering a variety of problems with either missing Marshall points, arriving to fast or to slow and generally messing up!

We lunched in a place called Fallon and with the temperature by early afternoon reaching 98 degrees, Jerry's Dinner was a welcome break, cold drinks and air conditioning - Bliss!

After lunch we continued on to Reno calling in at Virginia City on our way, the roads and the scenery had now changed drastically and we drove some amazing mountain roads twisting and turning all the way up to Virginia City.
Virginia City is a quirky old fashioned Place sat up in the hills above Reno, with wooden side walks lined with Saloons shops and museums. We enjoyed a bit of a look around and a nice cold Sasperelly before jumping back in to the red hot Porsche for the last few miles into Reno. 





Hot sweaty and dirty we decided to stop of and wash the car before going to the hotel, it would save a job tomorrow.

Arriving at our Hotel Peppermill Casino, we soon realised we were running a tad late and the coach was already ready to take us all to The Reno car museum for a pre arranged viewing and dinner! A quick shower and change and we hopped into a cab to catch up with the rest of the crew at the museum. A fantastic selection of cars on show here with the famous "Flyer" that completed the New York to Paris Great Race back in the 1908 - we had been told all about the car and the race, back in Buffalo at the Pierce Arrow museum, by the great grandson of the winner so it was great to now see the car for ourselves.



2 comments:

  1. Richard Glanville28 June 2015 at 03:48

    What a run!! Over 300 miles in one go but then I suppose the roads are wide and open with little traffic. At least your photos don't show any! How is the 912 going? I gather that you have four in various stages of tune depending on the rally! Wonder who told me that? Have a good last leg and hang onto P1 !!

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  2. Well done !! Not long to go!! x

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