The West, 2021: Day 6: Do Your Eyes Deceive You? Yes.

Annette on the Road

A mountain in Nevada (or was it Utah?) whose name we can’t remember. It was that kind of journey. The kind that never seems to end, no matter how small it looks on the map. Photo: Annette Laing, 2021.

I shouldn’t complain.

People who headed for the Gold Rush on the Hastings Route from Salt Lake City to California in 1849 were hot and miserable. They endu…