{"id":731,"date":"2009-01-11T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=731"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:06:47","slug":"middle-of-nowhere-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2009\/01\/middle-of-nowhere-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle of nowhere, Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_8485.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-730\" title=\"nevada rest stop winter\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_8485.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_8485.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_8485-800x599.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2008\/12\/bonneville-salt-flats\/\">mentioned a couple of weeks ago<\/a> when the Utah trip tour began on this blog, the salt flats on the way back to Oregon were really pretty. The sun was shining in the southeast and crazy cloud formations with rain and snow were happening in the northwest. We were expecting lots of snow on the road and when we left Utah, Nevada&#8217;s traffic and weather site stated that we would be putting chains on in at least 3 locations. Yuck. Therefore, there was no time to stop and take pictures of the salt flat scenes.<\/p>\n<p>However, we lucked out in Nevada and never had to put on chains. The first stop we made was at the above, desolate-looking rest stop near Wells, Nevada. No one was around for miles and miles. It was the first chance I had to take a break from driving and snap a picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned a couple of weeks ago when the Utah trip tour began on this blog, the salt flats on the way back to Oregon were really pretty. The sun was shining in the southeast and crazy cloud formations with rain and snow were happening in the northwest. We were expecting lots of snow on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[94,14,7,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35449,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/35449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}