Becoming my favorite channel to watch as of late with all the great elements of history, the beautiful scenery, and two people with an awesome persona that blend well with the great state of Nevada. Happy New Year to both of you, and may 2025 bring many safe adventures!🎉
WOW, what rugged, mostly desolate, barren, lonely but, somehow *beautiful areas you took us to. I was trying to think of living in those places after the snow you described fell. I can't even imagine! We didn't see, I don't think, one other car out and about, or another person. (I loved those socialable 🐎🐴.❤) Thank you both for the very interesting, informative info you gave us, Doug and Kellie. I really admire the people that can handle what the Winter throws their way. ❄️ 🌨 I am glad you made it out before the storm started... and after you had another, luscious lunch.👏🏻😋👏🏻 Once again, we saw another topnotch video. Thank you, so much, Doug and Kellie, for the FANtastic videos we see week after week. I wish you, your families, and all of your fans a blessed, safe, healthy, happy New Year. 🏡🙏🏻🎊👏🏻👏🏻🌨
@@rhondaz356 Hi Rhonda, I was so busy with home projects today I almost forgot to reply! I got a big pile of leaves from a friend that I piled up and mixed with compost that should be cooking over the winter. I will add them to the grape rows as fertilizer. You know me, ALWAYS a project going on! Surprisingly we didn't hardly see anyone on our trip: I think the tally was 4 people at the gas station in Austin, 1 man at the Middlegate Station Cafe, 2 Trucks, a couple pickup trucks, a couple cars, 2 camper sprinters, and absolutely no other vehicles in the Reese Valley (seriously). It's off season and winter weather. At least we saw some animals and I was elated to finally get a Golden Eagle on camera (not a turkey vulture, they migrate and stay farther south in the winter, plus I know my birds). 🦅I already have all my grapevines pruned and most all of my outdoor projects completed (the arbor required 10 gallons of sealer stain to seal it!, what a messy job that was, but it will make it last).🍇 The horses were a nice friendly herd that I called over to me, and they came right up! 🐎 So warm muzzles on a cold windy day. There are some tough tough people that live in those areas I assure you on that. We are planning on heading to California in the Sierra next adventure, just to check out the snow situation first hand. We are bringing snowshoes but no skies. Have a great New Year with your close big family! 2025! Can you believe it?! 🥳🎉🙂🙃🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸 🙏
@CalNeva YES, I am absolutely NOT surprised you have projects going.😀👏🏻😃 Thank you for all the above info. That helps me to visualize what it would be like to be hearty enough to survive in that region, when the snows come. Thank you, Doug, for bringing some of us to places we've never been, or will probably never go. I have learned so much.🤗 We all look forward to each of the episodes. I want to wish you, and Kellie, a blessed, happy, healthy 2025. I admire you. ***You live a meaningful life, and enjoy what you do, and we get to benefit, too.🤭. Take care, Doug, and give yourself a little break. YOU HAVE DEFINITELY EARNED IT. 🏡🙏🏻🤗🤠
Another fantastic adventure. Loved the cows trotting down the road. Guess they were off to an adventure of their own!. Lol Beautiful photography and enjoy learning about the small towns and how they came to be. Happy New Year to you and Kelli!
@@jennifertriplett6149 Hi Jennifer, the cows had a busy social schedule and were late for an event. The dry lake lent itself well to photographic creativity. Thank you, and you all have a great New Year too! 🥳🎉🇺🇸🚀
Very cinematic viewing, nothing like an apocalyptic dry lake bed to conjure Bergman's existentialism or Fellini's absurdism. You even got a brief shot of Kubrik's Space Odyssey bone waiting to be tossed in the air and the Quest for Fire pre-historic cave.🙂 The Hess brick house would have been a sight out there in it's heyday! Great show, better than football any day.
@@brakerbraker829 "Wow", said Kellie, "That was quite a comment"...and I agree. Really enjoyed reading that, in fact, I think I may enjoy reading that again when I need some inspiration. Have a fantastic New Year!
So were at Carroll Summit Station. The concrete base held up a typical Texaco star sign. The little building (station) was originally on Lake Tahoe's south shore and moved there in 1925. One of the many dry lake beds that was once part of ancient Lake Lohontan. Yum, yum Kellie made some great looking tasty cookies! Wow Doug didn't know you can make cinnamon rolls. The Nevada horses are not camera shy; I suspect they thought you had carrots or apples in your pocket! A great road trip for sure. Happy New Years to both of you and hoping for more interesting adventures in 2025! Steve
@@hestheMaster Great investigative work as usual Steve! I also had read it was moved from Tahoe but was unaware of the Texaco sign. I just loved the horses, I called them and they came right over (they felt warm even with that bitter cold wind blowing). I like to bake in winter because it saves on my budget, the oven warms the house, and the extra calories help keep me warm; a triple win ..plus I get to share them too. Happy New Year, it is going to be a good one! 🤠🇺🇸🎉🥳🛸👋
I'm also a realist like the two of you! Although I have to say,back in the early 70s ,traveling through this same area,I did have a UFO like experience! Anyway, great loop off of hwy 50! Your tours really Capture the essence of the back roads of the basin
Happy New Year Brother Doug and Kellie 👋. Oh so much fun this trip was for sure! I wonder if that little motel I stayed in back in the 80's is still there 🤔, you know the one where the room was so small that you have to climb over the bed to get to the bathroom?! Haha 😄. What an adventure that was! Thanks for the memories! (in Austin) Oh, by the way, I did notice the face on the rock cliff! Great video to end the year my dear Brother! 😊 🥳 🎆🎇 🇺🇸
@@Brother_D_therail Hi my Brother D, I just knew you would see something in that rock ( I shot that video clip with just you and your imagination in mind). That motel sounded awesome! Hope you both have a great New Year ahead. 🤠🥳🎉🇺🇸🛸
I remember my dad telling me how dangerous it was to drive over Carroll Summit back in the day from when he was growing up in Fallon. You passed right by the Owl Club in Austin. My Uncle Cass (dad's brother) has a painting hanging on the wall in that bar. He was a Nevada cowboy and lived in Austin for several years. I have a painting from him of wild mustangs in the Reese River Valley hanging on my wall. I have a picture of me sitting on that bench in front of the Ore House Saloon in Ione from 2018. When my brother and I drove from Cedarville, Ca to Gerlach, Nv on Road 34 the only people we saw was a road crew that was using a grader. We wanted to see the Fly Geyser, but the gate was locked so we could only see it from the road. Love the wide open spaces of Nevada! Happy New Year Doug & Kellie.
@@CharlieA-q4y Interesting Charlie! Great story and family history. We wanted to visit the Fly Geyser, but they were charging money and we didn't have the time, so we skipped it. I once drove from Cedarville on the gravel to Denio, Nevada. I don't believe we saw anyone (1995, living in Oregon at the time ...love that country in there though). No guardrail, steep curves, ice; I agree with your Dad on the Lincoln Highway on that stretch ...brutal winter driving. Happy New Year, things should be looking up in 2025! 👋🤠🇺🇸🎉
Thanks for the very cool adventure! I’ve gotta love the desolate almost understated beauty of much of Nevada, mixed in with some truly striking landscapes, historical remnants of the old west and neon lights. It’s definitely place with character.
@@jagman3377 I like that; "...desolate understated beauty..." well said, you are an excellent wordsmith. You are talented in writing. Can't wait to take you along with us in 2025, it's the first day and I am already chomping at the bit! 🤠👋🥇🖊️
Great adventure trip. Places that few people will ever see. 23:49 True. My adult Nephew went over the edge due to snow and ice near Page, Arizona. They did not find the vehicle nor him for days. The county would not release his body for a funeral. 24:22 A February 2024 photograph on Google Maps Images shows this plastic having a photo copy showing the building in use as a Texaco station, bar and restaurant. 26:26 same source shows the Lilac Bush in bloom June 2023 25:38 Campbell Creek, Nv. Species - Brook Trout (Nevada Dept. of Wildlife)
@@josephbingham1255 Good work Joseph! I saw the markings on the trout and was going to call it a brookie, but there are brown trout and others in the area and Heaven forbid if I identified it wrong (trout fishermen are very precise). Sorry about your nephew. We rented a houseboat in 1976 at Bullfrog Marina for a week near page on Lake Powell and saw Rainbow Bridge when there was still water up that way. All the rural roads are like that, at least we have the rural life flights now which helps. That makes sense about Carroll Station having those services. Lander County is spectacular, glad we could share it with you!
That very enjoyable. I was actually looking at a good portion of that route for a motorcycle ride next summer. This is some of my favorite areas of Nevada. Some friends and I went into the Ore House Saloon in Ione back in the mid 1980's during a hunting trip into the Shoshones, great times! Thank you for allowing me to tag along.
@@chrisc8856 Hi Chris, I will ask her, she has so many recipes and is such a good cook and baker (I think her caroway cookies are the best, she might makes some of those soon). 🍪👋
🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR! I love all your videos with Kellie, and especially your “theme song”. Is the music yours? I cannot get it on SoundHound or Shazam to find the name or any info. Please let me know where to can find that piece to purchase. Rosemary
@@AlanNBailey Oh thank you so much! Have a great 2025! Music is just a stock track; I am supposed to be doing a new one in Reno at the studios with my drummer cool cat friend Tom; stand by! 🇺🇸🤠🪕🎸🎺🥁
@@GlorifiedG-z9c Hi! I used to be involved with horses a lot when I was younger: mostly heavy draft horses, Percherons and Belgians. Farmed a 100 acre place with 6 horses full time and also did some mule packing in the Sierra. I learned how to talk sweet to horses, and they came right over to come say hello because they are sentient beings that are often affectionate and social by their nature. 🐎🫏🤠👋🛸
Becoming my favorite channel to watch as of late with all the great elements of history, the beautiful scenery, and two people with an awesome persona that blend well with the great state of Nevada.
Happy New Year to both of you, and may 2025 bring many safe adventures!🎉
@@thelookingway5390 Thank you for such a nice uplifting and positive comment! We will all have fun on our many adventures in 2025! 🥳👋🛸🚀🐂
WOW, what rugged, mostly desolate, barren, lonely but, somehow *beautiful areas you took us to. I was trying to think of living in those places after the snow you described fell. I can't even imagine! We didn't see, I don't think, one other car out and about, or another person. (I loved those socialable 🐎🐴.❤) Thank you both for the very interesting, informative info you gave us, Doug and Kellie. I really admire the people that can handle what the Winter throws their way. ❄️ 🌨 I am glad you made it out before the storm started... and after you had another, luscious lunch.👏🏻😋👏🏻 Once again, we saw another topnotch video.
Thank you, so much, Doug and Kellie, for the FANtastic videos we see week after week. I wish you, your families, and all of your fans a blessed, safe, healthy, happy New Year.
🏡🙏🏻🎊👏🏻👏🏻🌨
@@rhondaz356 Hi Rhonda, I was so busy with home projects today I almost forgot to reply! I got a big pile of leaves from a friend that I piled up and mixed with compost that should be cooking over the winter. I will add them to the grape rows as fertilizer. You know me, ALWAYS a project going on! Surprisingly we didn't hardly see anyone on our trip: I think the tally was 4 people at the gas station in Austin, 1 man at the Middlegate Station Cafe, 2 Trucks, a couple pickup trucks, a couple cars, 2 camper sprinters, and absolutely no other vehicles in the Reese Valley (seriously). It's off season and winter weather. At least we saw some animals and I was elated to finally get a Golden Eagle on camera (not a turkey vulture, they migrate and stay farther south in the winter, plus I know my birds). 🦅I already have all my grapevines pruned and most all of my outdoor projects completed (the arbor required 10 gallons of sealer stain to seal it!, what a messy job that was, but it will make it last).🍇 The horses were a nice friendly herd that I called over to me, and they came right up! 🐎 So warm muzzles on a cold windy day. There are some tough tough people that live in those areas I assure you on that. We are planning on heading to California in the Sierra next adventure, just to check out the snow situation first hand. We are bringing snowshoes but no skies. Have a great New Year with your close big family! 2025! Can you believe it?! 🥳🎉🙂🙃🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸 🙏
@CalNeva YES, I am absolutely NOT surprised you have projects going.😀👏🏻😃 Thank you for all the above info. That helps me to visualize what it would be like to be hearty enough to survive in that region, when the snows come. Thank you, Doug, for bringing some of us to places we've never been, or will probably never go. I have learned so much.🤗 We all look forward to each of the episodes.
I want to wish you, and Kellie, a blessed, happy, healthy 2025. I admire you. ***You live a meaningful life, and enjoy what you do, and we get to benefit, too.🤭.
Take care, Doug, and give yourself a little break. YOU HAVE DEFINITELY EARNED IT.
🏡🙏🏻🤗🤠
@rhondaz356 So kind! 👼💐
Another fantastic adventure. Loved the cows trotting down the road. Guess they were off to an adventure of their own!. Lol
Beautiful photography and enjoy learning about the small towns and how they came to be. Happy New Year to you and Kelli!
@@jennifertriplett6149 Hi Jennifer, the cows had a busy social schedule and were late for an event. The dry lake lent itself well to photographic creativity. Thank you, and you all have a great New Year too! 🥳🎉🇺🇸🚀
Very cinematic viewing, nothing like an apocalyptic dry lake bed to conjure Bergman's existentialism or Fellini's absurdism. You even got a brief shot of Kubrik's Space Odyssey bone waiting to be tossed in the air and the Quest for Fire pre-historic cave.🙂
The Hess brick house would have been a sight out there in it's heyday! Great show, better than football any day.
@@brakerbraker829 "Wow", said Kellie, "That was quite a comment"...and I agree. Really enjoyed reading that, in fact, I think I may enjoy reading that again when I need some inspiration. Have a fantastic New Year!
So were at Carroll Summit Station. The concrete base held up a typical Texaco star sign. The little building (station) was originally on Lake Tahoe's south shore and moved there in 1925. One of the many dry lake beds that was once part of
ancient Lake Lohontan. Yum, yum Kellie made some great looking tasty cookies! Wow Doug didn't know you can make
cinnamon rolls. The Nevada horses are not camera shy; I suspect they thought you had carrots or apples in your pocket!
A great road trip for sure. Happy New Years to both of you and hoping for more interesting adventures in 2025! Steve
@@hestheMaster Great investigative work as usual Steve! I also had read it was moved from Tahoe but was unaware of the Texaco sign. I just loved the horses, I called them and they came right over (they felt warm even with that bitter cold wind blowing). I like to bake in winter because it saves on my budget, the oven warms the house, and the extra calories help keep me warm; a triple win ..plus I get to share them too. Happy New Year, it is going to be a good one! 🤠🇺🇸🎉🥳🛸👋
I'm also a realist like the two of you! Although I have to say,back in the early 70s ,traveling through this same area,I did have a UFO like experience!
Anyway, great loop off of hwy 50! Your tours really
Capture the essence of
the back roads of the basin
@@TimT-um6rt Thank you Tim! Try not to get abducted again....🚀🛸
- when it rains, it pours / when it's poor, it reigns.
@@1d1ane Hey Steve, I emailed you a couple nice landscape shots! Happy 2025 my friend!
@CalNeva - et Tu
Happy New Year Brother Doug and Kellie 👋.
Oh so much fun this trip was for sure! I wonder if that little motel I stayed in back in the 80's is still there 🤔, you know the one where the room was so small that you have to climb over the bed to get to the bathroom?! Haha 😄. What an adventure that was! Thanks for the memories! (in Austin)
Oh, by the way, I did notice the face on the rock cliff!
Great video to end the year my dear Brother! 😊 🥳 🎆🎇 🇺🇸
@@Brother_D_therail Hi my Brother D, I just knew you would see something in that rock ( I shot that video clip with just you and your imagination in mind). That motel sounded awesome! Hope you both have a great New Year ahead. 🤠🥳🎉🇺🇸🛸
Great dry lake bed!Open spaces like that sure nudges the spirit! Glad you did'nt hit a soft spot and sink up to your axles
@@TimT-um6rt We were worried about that!
Happy new year .Great 2024 videos ,can't wait for tne 2025 adventures
P.S.i love the maps almost as cool as K.Z.s cookies?..?mmmmmm .and the stormy kromer of course
@@caseyhansen4567 Ha! Happy 2025 Family!
Have a happy new year! Doug and Kellie! Can't wait to see your new adventures in 2025!🍾🎊🎉👍👌✌️👏😉
@@tomesguerra5495 Thank you Tom, we are looking forward to it! 🛸🐂🍪🚣⛷️🫏🐎
Love your videos hope to see more. Wish you a happy new year.🎉🎊👍👍
@@juansantiago8628 Thank you Juan, really appreciate that. Happy 2025; it should be a good one my friend! 🤠🛸🫏
happy new year Doug & Kellie
@@william2036 She said to say Thank you William! 👋🌟🎉
Happy new year Kellie and Doug.
@@lloydberges3533 Thank you Lloyd; 2025 should be a good one! 🥳🎉🌟
Winter is here stay warm and dry thank you both.
@@davec9244 Hi Dave! I have a nice fire going in the woodstove; 72 in the house. 🔥
I remember my dad telling me how dangerous it was to drive over Carroll Summit back in the day from when he was growing up in Fallon. You passed right by the Owl Club in Austin. My Uncle Cass (dad's brother) has a painting hanging on the wall in that bar. He was a Nevada cowboy and lived in Austin for several years. I have a painting from him of wild mustangs in the Reese River Valley hanging on my wall. I have a picture of me sitting on that bench in front of the Ore House Saloon in Ione from 2018. When my brother and I drove from Cedarville, Ca to Gerlach, Nv on Road 34 the only people we saw was a road crew that was using a grader. We wanted to see the Fly Geyser, but the gate was locked so we could only see it from the road. Love the wide open spaces of Nevada! Happy New Year Doug & Kellie.
@@CharlieA-q4y Interesting Charlie! Great story and family history. We wanted to visit the Fly Geyser, but they were charging money and we didn't have the time, so we skipped it. I once drove from Cedarville on the gravel to Denio, Nevada. I don't believe we saw anyone (1995, living in Oregon at the time ...love that country in there though). No guardrail, steep curves, ice; I agree with your Dad on the Lincoln Highway on that stretch ...brutal winter driving. Happy New Year, things should be looking up in 2025! 👋🤠🇺🇸🎉
Happy New Year Doug and Kellie. This was a great video thanks for sharing your adventures across Nevada..👍😊
@@maverick4080 Thank you my friend Maverick. Happy New Year! 🥳👋🎉🇺🇸
Thanks for the very cool adventure! I’ve gotta love the desolate almost understated beauty of much of Nevada, mixed in with some truly striking landscapes, historical remnants of the old west and neon lights.
It’s definitely place with character.
@@jagman3377 I like that; "...desolate understated beauty..." well said, you are an excellent wordsmith. You are talented in writing. Can't wait to take you along with us in 2025, it's the first day and I am already chomping at the bit! 🤠👋🥇🖊️
Oh, and thanks for showing the route on the map!
@@edvonp Our pleasure, it was Kellie's idea!
Great adventure trip. Places that few people will ever see.
23:49 True. My adult Nephew went over the edge due to snow and ice near Page, Arizona. They did not find the vehicle nor him for days. The county would not release his body for a funeral.
24:22 A February 2024 photograph on Google Maps Images shows this plastic having a photo copy showing the building in use as a Texaco station, bar and restaurant.
26:26 same source shows the Lilac Bush in bloom June 2023
25:38 Campbell Creek, Nv. Species - Brook Trout (Nevada Dept. of Wildlife)
@@josephbingham1255 Good work Joseph! I saw the markings on the trout and was going to call it a brookie, but there are brown trout and others in the area and Heaven forbid if I identified it wrong (trout fishermen are very precise). Sorry about your nephew. We rented a houseboat in 1976 at Bullfrog Marina for a week near page on Lake Powell and saw Rainbow Bridge when there was still water up that way. All the rural roads are like that, at least we have the rural life flights now which helps. That makes sense about Carroll Station having those services. Lander County is spectacular, glad we could share it with you!
That very enjoyable. I was actually looking at a good portion of that route for a motorcycle ride next summer. This is some of my favorite areas of Nevada. Some friends and I went into the Ore House Saloon in Ione back in the mid 1980's during a hunting trip into the Shoshones, great times! Thank you for allowing me to tag along.
@@edvonp Thank you for joining us, have a great motorcycle adventure in 2025....in fact, have more than one! 🏍️
I love Smith creek playa. We landsail and camp there.
Really enjoy watching your adventures on youtube. Keep up the good work!
@@eddwil7 What a fabulous idea Ed! Sounds like really good times; amazing. Thank you and have a great 2025!
Carroll station was a bar.
@@KenBrown-d3x Thank you for setting us straight on that one Ken. Happy New Year! 🎉👋🥳🤠
Once one gets out of Clark County, it gets a lot more interesting.
@@GlorifiedG-z9c I think Clark County is interesting too, in it's own way, but the rest of Nevada is so little known (at least nationally). 🤠👋
Thanks for taking us along! Is there ANY chance Kelly could share her afgan cookie recipe? They look really good and healthy.
@@chrisc8856 Hi Chris, I will ask her, she has so many recipes and is such a good cook and baker (I think her caroway cookies are the best, she might makes some of those soon). 🍪👋
@@CalNeva Thanks Doug, please let her know that if she put together her healthy favorites cook book or just favorite recepies I would buy!
@chrisc8856 Will do! Many have told her she could promote and sell "Kellie's Cookies", but she just laughs and says she is too busy. 🍪
🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR! I love all your videos with Kellie, and especially your “theme song”. Is the music yours? I cannot get it on SoundHound or Shazam to find the name or any info. Please let me know where to can find that piece to purchase. Rosemary
@@AlanNBailey Oh thank you so much! Have a great 2025! Music is just a stock track; I am supposed to be doing a new one in Reno at the studios with my drummer cool cat friend Tom; stand by! 🇺🇸🤠🪕🎸🎺🥁
At forty nine, wow they are pretty. Neato, I think they want some food :-(
@@GlorifiedG-z9c Hi! I used to be involved with horses a lot when I was younger: mostly heavy draft horses, Percherons and Belgians. Farmed a 100 acre place with 6 horses full time and also did some mule packing in the Sierra. I learned how to talk sweet to horses, and they came right over to come say hello because they are sentient beings that are often affectionate and social by their nature. 🐎🫏🤠👋🛸
Happy New Year!
Those were vultures. Eating a dead animal.
@@matt89447 You too! 🎉🥳🤠🇺🇸
Hey Doug I have gout in my right foot big toe joints owwwwwwe