Well at least my car isn't on fire

Despite the weather dipping well below freezing and the slight nagging terror of a possible mountain lion sniffing the garlic on our breaths from the left overs from Calebs's bday dinner, our night in Great Basin went by pretty smoothly. I did wake up a number of times and thought about using the bathrooms 40 feet away but then the thought of finding a mountain lion, however irrational, scared me enough to forget I even had a bladder. Now when I say bathrooms I'm being kind. This facility, however lucky we were to have it, had no lights and our site had no running water. This would make night number three without a shower, which we were dealing with fine with some wipes and minor wardrobe changes, more specifically socks. The Great Basin NP was noted for it's skies and man oh man did we see some stars, its a shame it was a bit to cold, I would've stayed out there for hours. You probably haven't seen that many stars in your life. I have to make it a point to go there again because as best laid plans will do, they went wrong first thing in the morning. We were supposed to get up to go on our cave tour, we woke in plenty of time, however the night before just as we were about to go to sleep we heard a terrifying inorganic pop, imagine what a gallon water jug sounds like when the pressure returns to normal after high elevations or being filled with water after its been compressed, except so loud it could have been in the tent with us. We passed it off as something falling off a tree or whatever, we'll check it in the morning. Well sure enough, we found it, it was my back windshield, shattered from corner to corner. So on the prettiest day of the trip, warm and no clouds, a perfect 50 degrees, we ditched our plans for hiking and cave touring and heading straight for Reno in hopes of finding a place that could get it fixed before the weekend. We picked out as much glass as we could and made a damn good make shift shield in it's place, could hardly tell there used to be a window there. Unfortunately we wouldn't make it into Reno before the close of most businesses, so Monday it was... luck was not a lady for me that night in Nevada.