Extraterrestrial Highway - Area 51 Planning
For part of our shake down cruise in Lil' Queeny, a resto-mod 1968 Travel Queen truck camper blogged about in multi-part for multi-years over in Truck Campers, we're planning a late winter/early sprin...
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Well, to each his own. I'm sure that SOME people like Eastern Nevada, if for no other reason than probably not all the people who live there are doing so involuntarily :)
To me, growing up in California, Nevada was always the big empty place that was in the way between me and someplace interesting, like the Rockies. It would be cool, I thought, if you could cross the state line on I-80, blink, and then reappear at Wendover, like a tesseract or something (not that you wouldn't still be in for another two hours of nothing).
But yeah, Nevada has some interesting dirt, and rocks, and old abandoned prospectors' cabins. And I can't deny--space. Emptiness. Solitude. Nothingness. Quiet. And where else can you drive straight through a crater from a past nuclear explosion? Bring your Geiger counter! (Cancer rates downwind from the test sites have been thirty times the national average, though the government has never taken responsibility.)
To me, growing up in California, Nevada was always the big empty place that was in the way between me and someplace interesting, like the Rockies. It would be cool, I thought, if you could cross the state line on I-80, blink, and then reappear at Wendover, like a tesseract or something (not that you wouldn't still be in for another two hours of nothing).
But yeah, Nevada has some interesting dirt, and rocks, and old abandoned prospectors' cabins. And I can't deny--space. Emptiness. Solitude. Nothingness. Quiet. And where else can you drive straight through a crater from a past nuclear explosion? Bring your Geiger counter! (Cancer rates downwind from the test sites have been thirty times the national average, though the government has never taken responsibility.)
