The wild and wonderful west coast american road trip continues as we leave Salt Lake City Utah and head west on Interstate 80 across the salt flats, incredible mountain views, and the entire expanse of Northern Nevada ... all as we race the fading fall sunlight in an attempt to reach Lake Tahoe in time to photograph Bonsai Rock at sunset.
So much to see in this video it DOES get a little long, unfortunately much of the incredible views we passed by we couldn't stop to enjoy due to our compressed time table. Doing this trip in the fall is tough, when sun set is 4:46pm that doesn't give you much daylight driving time!
The salt flats were gorgeous, the red stone mesas and buttes were incredible in the fading light, the drove up and over Mount Rose to drop into Lake Tahoe... what an incredible drive on NV - 431! This video is already a bit long as it is edited now but the views we saw along the way it could have been twice this length easily. We do apologize in advance for some of the shaky footage there were some sections of road that were quite difficult to film on.
As you'll see our Bulletproof Diesel Ford F250 6.0 Powerstroke is trucking along just fine, though our fuel economy in this big thing DID suffer with the 80mph speed limites through much of this area. Engine temps remained great, no issues with trans temps, not a cough of hiccup along the way. Even with the climbs up to more than 10,000 feet that turbo diesel just kept right on pulling!
We hope you are enjoying this adventure with us, doing a road trip vlog isn't exactly our thing as mechanics but when we are out on these long treks in something we have built... well why not share it with you all? Lots more to trips travels and experiences to come!
As always we appreciate all the new subscribers and viewers, let us know what you think of all the craziness we get into!
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"Road Trip" - Nicolai Heidlas
