Cowboy Poetry

Got up early to leave another fantastic wal-mart parking lot and drove across the salt flats of western Utah. Utah totally got screwed because the second you arrive in Nevada you are off the salt flats and into mountains. Nevada = boring to drive across, but at least a little better than Utah. There was a bastion of hope.... Elko, NV.


Elko, Nevada home of the Western Folklife Center and most importantly every January home to the National COWBOY POETRY competition. If you don't know what cowboy poetry is you can learn a little more with this video: Heaven's Cowboys

This is the bar the competition is in.



After that it was more Nevada and onto Oregon where we encountered this behemoth of a hill.


Very interesting drive down, 6 miles of 25mph and no trust in our brakes, but we made it down alright. We found a campsite (for FREE!) in a national forest outside of Paisley, OR and got there in time to make a campfire (yay!).