text: After what was a long week in Washington, D.C., I'm happy to be back home and spending time with normal people. We're crisscrossing Northern Nevada, from Owyhee to McDermitt, from Elko to Carson City, making stops at schools, the U.S. Forest Service, a fire department, a police department, tribal councils, county commissions, a chamber of commerce, a Rotary Club, a veterans' town hall, you name it. You cannot substitute getting together face-to-face with the Nevadans who gave you the job.