It was a beautiful and brutal route. If I hadn't done all this touring months before, I don't think I could have done it. First of all, the Sierras are the worst climb through California. There's rolling foothills going up and down 1500 feet until you reach the mountain, where you go up 8000ft to Kirkwood. Now Nevada itself is mostly 1500ft UPS and downs, but big mileage days with huge water carries. 60-85 miles a day.
Carson City I stayed with Warmshowers hosts.
Fallon stopped allowing tents in their fairground due to homeless people and covid.
MiddleGate station let's cyclists camp for free, but good luck saying no to a paid shower and burger.
Austin has a weird church run RV park with tent sites, which was cool to have something. But the guy really pushed for a donation...while treating me like a homeless person so I gave nothing.
In Eureka everything was full or closed, so I camped at a rest area that says you can only be there 18 hours. Highway patrol came by, but never bother me.
The 80 mile slog into Ely exhausted me, so I snuck into a KOA and was out by morning. Checked into Hotel Nevada and enjoyed a cheap room for a day off.
Baker has a little Whisper Elms RV Park that offers bicycle camping and showers for ten bucks.
The 84 mile ride to Milford was the hardest. There's a secret abandoned house halfway between it with a spring feeding the only two trees in that desert. I got hit by headwinds and camped at the top of a climb. Once in Milford, I got a TravelLodge for 50 bucks by getting them to undercut the Priceline deal.
In Cedar City, I got a WarmShowers host.
