Reno: Driving in towards the city

Once we were properly stretched, situated, and caffeinated (given I'm a hopeless coffee fiend, while Antho has only started to dabble in the beany-brew quite recently) we returned to the road. We were grateful for the daylight, as our drive in the wee hours of the night had taken us down some back-country roads where we were anxious about stopping despite being bleary-eyed with exhaustion, lest we awaken to find an angry farmer banging on our window. The scenery directly outside of Vegas is quite familiar to us, too, so we weren't especially heartbroken about missing out on the scenic views further south, but as we were rapidly stretching into new territory and it's far more interesting to be able to watch the scenery evolve as you travel! Antho took the camera for this stretch of the road, so he caught some shots of my old Volvo rolling along, as well as his own co-pilot's nest. I had Ollie riding along with me, while Antho kept our sweet girl Buttercup with him for the duration.  Her cage was only a temporary solution, as she was previously living in the big mansion of a cage that had housed all of our ladies and was impractical and illogical to cram into either vehicle. Normally we travel together and only take one vehicle when we go out and about on day to day adventures, so having our fuzzy company helped take some of the edges off of going it alone. The walkie-talkies helped quite a bit, too, as we could communicate immediately with one another about road conditions, a guy riding our butts, a strange burnt out abandoned structure off to the side of the road, what-have-you. If you ever find yourself traveling an extensive way as part of a caravan, I absolutely and emphatically recommend getting walkie-talkies to stay in touch with your fellow drivers! Not only will you be able to communicate with everyone in your party (crucial), you might get to pick up on some random conspiracy chatter as you hurtle across the landscape. We caught some serious government conspiracy rants breaking through our channel somewhere around here, which added some unexpected intrigue to the proceedings. 

Check back tomorrow for the next step of the adventure!

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XOXO,

NAU