reno to vegas

the drive from reno to vegas was by far the most boring visually. but the most fun for us. there is some really hilarious stuff going on highway 89 in nevada. we decided it's the highway for ho's to go go. i don't think i can recall just how many brothels we drove by. favorite names included the shady lady, playmate ranch, cottontail brothel. i love how completely guileless they are about it.

there was a town (um, i guess that's what you could call it) called shurz and as we were leaving this is what we saw:

a literal shoe tree! to understand why this was so funny to us i can provide some background. my friend jared turned me on to kelly and she likes to sing about shoes. please see the video below - jessica and i would watch it when we woke up and right before we went to bed:


oh my god, shoes!

jess and i realized we hadn't taken many pics of us so i decided i would take one of us in the car. i decided to completely block jess's view and the following pic was the result:

i slightly scared the crap out of her as i was completely blocking her view of the road. i think it's funny :)

other fun notes - we saw signs for bull crossing, burro crossing and get this - lobster crossing. i'm not kidding. in the middle of the freaking desert.

we also had stopping issues that day. jess would declare no more stops and then 20 minutes later say she needed to stop. we shopped at wallgreens for an hour because that was absolutely necessary. i think it maybe should have taken us 5-6 hours to get there and it took us 8-9 hours. but when we finally pulled in to the hard rock hotel parking lot we knew that the rock stars were coming out to play!!! ;)