Last state that I will be travelling across with people power?

Nevada was not as hot as I thought, not as dangerous as I thought, colder at about 3:00 in the morning than I thought, more mountainous than I thought, more sad about not hiking through than I thought.  I rode across Nevada mostly on 50, with a few side trips.  Went by very quick, a week I think.  One day I rode off the hwy on a dirt forest service trail up into some mountains and found a beautiful spring fed oasis.  There was mint growing in the thick moist grass.  It's hard to get any happier than finding an Oasis in the desert out in the middle of nowhere.  Visited two petraglyph sites.  Seeing this, you have to use your imagination to invision a wetter climate, where huge expanses of barren salt flats used to be shallow lakes surrounded by wildlife and cattails.

Carson City is the gateway from the desert imediately into alpine lake relief.  Instead of using hwy 50, I used a mountain trail to cross into the Tahoe basin.  Very beautiful transition.  I went to a beach called secret cove when I got to the lake.  Water, crystal clear, surrounded by alpine mountains, and more variety of plant life since I can remember.  Cold morning camping on the shore, got down to 37 I heard.  Saw a bear the second day around the lake on the Tahoe Rim Trail.  I wish I was hiking again. 

I met a mountain biking couple on the trail and they invited me to stay with them until my unkle flys in for a 4 day vacation.  I love the Sierra Nevadas so far, and I would like to visit again.

From here I travel through and down the mountains for 100 miles, then through Sacramento, and San Francisco.  Dropping 9,000' or so.