You ever been addicted to a place?
LiquidChaos66
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After our trip to Area 51 and Vegas... I have not been able to stop thinking about Rachel Nevada. We stayed there after hitting Area 51 and puttered around the surrounding desert. I can't get the scenery out of my head, I can't stop thinking about it's dead silence, I can't stop thinking about the beautiful heat (dry as comfortable), I can't stop thinking about how much there is to explore and discover out there. I literally NEED to go back. Everyday i think about it and I'm saddened and physically let down that I'm not there.
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Lay off the taters for a few days,, youll be fine ;o)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_State_Route_375
I saw a few videos on YouTube te last couple days about abandoned mines in the area of Rachel. Just seems like a really fun adventure to on as well. Plus with such a small population I would love the isolate feeling of living there. If I ever get the hankering to be away from all civilization... 5 minute drive in almost any direction.
Lava Beds National Monument
Have been there a few times, my brother-in-law & I would grab a headlamp, hard hat, and stuff a water bottle in our pocket, leave camp & explore what ever hole in the ground going down we came across - didn't like the normal park ones there that have steps/ladders going down as much lol
We would be belly crawling many hours just enjoying the caves, darkness, and complete quiet, would take our breaks wherever we decided and turn off our head lamps, sip water and just bask in the total darkness & silence
Always think about those times, to bad I'll never be able to do that again
Take care of your backs guys, I never knew just how much messing it up could hinder life until it was to late
lol! Nothin beats good nachos!
About 20 years ago I took a month off and cruised across the country with a friend of mine. I like to stay off the major highways as much as possible, everyone's in a hurry to get someplace and relax. Highway food is highway food, highway people are highway people. So I left my house and took a right at the end of the road went though NH, Vermont and upstate NY mostly on rural Rt9. Met some interesting people. Didn't pay a dime in tolls until I hit Ohio. Went on I90 through the mid-west to WA, stopping here and there. Even took off across the prairie sometimes just because. So desolate out there in some places, Montana and N Dakota, just beautiful. Met some interesting people there too, they wear guns. Stayed in Spokane for a few days with friends. Lots of cracked windshields out there, big business. Went down through Oregon to Santa Rosa CA, taking smaller roads. In northern CA ran across some real small towns and some old mine shafts there too. Met some real interesting people.
There's lots of great places but I think it's the people you meet and things you see on the way that you remember the most. Me and another Yankee walking into a hole in the wall bar in Gaffney SC at 11am, yup the real people, lol. Most trips I have more fun getting there then when we actually do arrive, although that's fun too.