I drive for a living. I am responsible for clients across the entirety of Northern California and a good chunk of Northern Nevada. A lot of these drives are ordinary and mundane, but every once in awhile I get a real beauty. I set up a business trip to Reno to be followed directly by a visit to my most distant client in Klamath Falls, Oregon. This meant a 260 mile run through California's north east corner, the High Lonesome corner I sometimes call it for its mix of mountains and high desert, sage brush and juniper trees, dry lakebeds yielding mercifully to lush agricultural stretches, and above all, hardly any people. US Highway 395 runs from the Mojave Desert all the way up to the Canadian border. From Reno, it is the main route leaving
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