Thanks to our very efficient packing, we were ready to leave just after 2 PM today. This was today's route. Lisa did a good job of packing. We have room to spare, which is good. We stopped by the post office to check for mail (none), then went to Walgreens, where Lisa had a couple of things she wanted to get. While I was putting in an order to pick up at the Starbucks across the road, Lisa remembered something important that she had left at home. It was much better to have had to do this backtrack while we were still in Fernley than if we were in Lovelock or Winnemucca. We went back to the house, collected the missing items, and left about 3 PM. I had not looked at what the highway conditions were across I-80, and it hardly mattered as there are not many alternative routes. But what I did not know was that there are many stretches of I-80 across Nevada this summer that are reduced to one lane with a 55 mph speed limit, for repaving projects. And we don't travel quickly anyway. We tend to stop at most rest areas and make other stops along the way. For example, we went to the Big R in Winnemucca, which has a larger selection than the stores in Fernley and Fallon. There, we found a shirt for Lisa, which I call a big success, as Lisa is very difficult to shop for. As I mentioned, we stop at most rest areas. At the Cosgrave rest area, we noticed a whole lot of ugly looking crickets. Farther to the east, Lisa pulled off on a quiet exit so we could change drivers. There we saw a whole lot more of these bugs. These photos do not do justice to the hundreds or probably thousands of huge crickets covering the road and the walls of the underpass. I could feel the van crushing a bunch of them. Ewww. At the Beowawe rest area, there weren't nearly so many crickets, but there was one on a wall that allowed me to get a better photo. I learned later that these are Mormon Crickets , and they have been infesting eastern Nevada, including Elko , although they've moved on from Elko itself. We got to the hotel about 8:30 PM. After moving in and getting my computer running, I ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut. I was puzzled why it was showing the right address but a different room number until I realized that we must have ordered when staying at this hotel on a previous trip, and my computer remembered the old room number. Anyway, while waiting for the pizza, we walked over to the mini-market down the street and got drinks to bring back to the hotel. It's a good thing we didn't go far, because the pizza arrived in only half the predicted time. We're not complaining; we were both hungry. Now I must try to get some sleep; I have to be up in less than five hours to do a half-day's work at Day Jobbe before we shove off for Idaho Falls.