We hopped on I-80 and drove through 175 miles of the Great Basin.  Mile after mile of large dried lake beds.  We are now in Winnemucca (Say it!).  We are at the same campground we stopped at over 20 years ago with Mike & Jeff when it was a KOA.  It is pretty calm today but back then it was so windy we had a hard time getting our tent up so they refunded our money and we went to a motel.  This town was settled by buckaroos, ranchers, miners, Native americans and Basque sheepherders, so we went to dinner at a Basque restaurant.  Very good and the kind of thing Alesa likes to do.  The rodeo is in town so it is truly a town of dungarees, big cowboy hats and cowboy boots with spurs.  Before dinner we went to the casino and doubled our money right before losing it all but don't worry we were playing the nickle slots and only lost $2.