I've made quite a bit of progress, moving north between the meridian lines of 110 degrees West and 114. How does the land change, so that you know you are making progress? There is more snow on the mountain tops, certainly. But altitude-changes confuse your latitude-changes.
Despite going northish most of the time, time zone changes confuse the heck out of me and my little dog. So far we have whiplashed between Arizona Time, to Mountain Daylight time, to Pacific Daylight, and now back to Mountain Daylight. Finally, northern ID will become Pacific Daylight. Does she eat dinner at 3:00 local time or Tummy Time?
Last year I made the mistake of going through Nevada on the western (CA) side of the state. The grocery store and gas station prices were shocking. This year I used the eastern side of the state.
The north/south ranges, with sagebrush/grass basins in between, are very attractive in spring. The mountains are pure white -- they don't call this place "nevada", snowy, for nuttin'. What a contrast between the snowless, flat basins and the mountains!
The most sudden change was going north of Interstate 80, where the Basin and Range country transitions to randomly oriented mountains and canyons.
Now we are in a new region, the east/west Snake River plain. It is lower and warmer here than in Nevada. But what surprised me most was the loud and beautiful singing of meadowlarks just outside my camper door. Oh sure, there is probably an app that would identify the bird for me. But I am sick of destroying the mystique of everything by looking it up on the internet.
Then again, You Tube came through with a lovely video of a meadowlark singing.
Is this not a perfect use for internet videos?! Compare it to all the talking head videos, the how-to videos with poor lighting, the product reviews with an AI voice, etc.
This meadowlark is finally the (male) tenor voice that can upstage Asmik Grigorian. Take that, girl! Eat your heart out, Asmik.
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The bird was lovely.