Redding to Puckerbrush, Nv

It was such a relief to get out of the smoke of Oregon and Northern Calif.   

Daisy and I spent a lovely, quiet, smoke-free night in Lassen National Forest before heading on to Reno.

Susanville has a deer problem.

Something happens in the desert that loosens the imagination.  Between Susanville and Reno, when, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, I passed this lone tree.  Good thing I saw it because the scenery had become so static I was beginning to get sleepy.   

I did an abrupt turnaround.  What in the world?  A fungus? 

Shoes!  Lots and lots of shoes! 

Some of them were so high up in the tree I wondered at the acrobatics that it took to get them there.

I didn't see anything in my size.

 I did.

We may be shoeless but we will always have each other....

Soon after passing the 'shoe tree' I came upon this bus that was obviously used as a live aboard camper....

...and those are all bicycles!  Dozens and dozens of bicycles!

It was a few days later that I read that hundreds of bicycles had been deserted in the desert after the Burning Man Festival ended.  Whoever was in that bus was on his way to a new business.

Puckerbrush population...28 hardy people.... and one business.

 I spent the night.