Rain in the Desert

Today we spent the day traveling through Nevada. It was desert. We saw lots of salt flats with some yucky looking water. We thought we smelled humidity which seemed strange because we were in the desert in the summer. Then it looked like rain ahead and it turned out that it was not a mirage. We got rained on in the desert. We even saw some lightening.

After the rain, things looked a little greener than you would expect, but what was most noticeable was the smell. It smelled like a mix between Pine Sol (something we need to pick up for our bear repellant) and B.O. We couldn’t decide if we liked the smell or not. At first we thought it was some factory in the town where we stopped to eat, but when we smelled it way outside of town, we decided it must be some smell that the desert bushes let off after rain.

As we headed north to go from Nevada to Idaho, we drove past the northern part of the Ruby Mountains. They were really pretty. See pictures below.