As we were driving through Western Nevada on Hiway 93, the air seemed very hazy. In fact in Hawthorne, it was so bad I could barely make out the mountains just a couple of miles west of town. When we got to Fallon, I mentioned it to the locals and they told me it was smoke from the California fires.
Today, as we drove over the Sierras on I80, it was pretty clear in Reno, and Truckee. But when we got down to Placerville, the smoke was thick. And it stayed smokey all the way into San Jose. While driving to Nevada, we did notice a rather large fire in the mountains southeast of Tucson. Then one of the neighbors in Fallon told us there was a fire near Phoenix. Coupled with the fire we had near Las Cruces a week ago, it seems that the west is on fire!
Oh, a quick gas price update… gas was $3.72 in Lordsburg NM; $4.15 in Vegas; $4.49 in Tonopah, NV; $4.03 in Fernley NV (between Fallon and Reno), and when I got to San Jose it was $4.53!