Ramada Inn Tonopah Station Nv

... Highway in Nevada, which passes the top secret (lol) entrance to the top secret (lol) Groom Lake facility, aka Area 51. This was our third visit, we'd managed to spend a night in the tiny town of Rachel last year and visit the Little Al' e Inn Diner. Rachel is the closest town to Area 51, and you can travel down unmarked dirt tracks to the entrance gates, which are simply gates in the middle of the desert, with loads of signs ...

The nights were cold as if it snowed over night but as the day progressed, so did the temperature into Bay Area weather.  Too bad I wasn't feeling very well today.  Thanks to a slight mixture of the altitude and the "ok to smoke in Nevada" law my cold turned into a huge head CON-gestion!  I forced myself to join the group for brunch atop Harrah's Casino.  From what I could remember, there was a never ending selection of eats ...

... s view 10 badwater 4 artiste drive e artist palette 7 twenty mule team canyon 7 Ho visitato la ghost town di Ryholite e quella di Goldfield che non ho capito s'era mezza fantasma e mezza abitata :D Mentre ero sulla 95 north stavo a 80 miglia e il limite era 70... vedevo che le altre macchine davanti a me andavano anche un po' piu' veloci e allora ho seguito un po' il loro passo ad un certo punto nel senso opposto la macchina dello sceriffo che ci ...

... into them, and even go in some of them. The shop etc has goods still on the shelves. It was really interesting, and we all enjoyed. Hopefully it was a good history lesson for the kids; Tegz in particular was impressed and bought a book on it. This town gave a good indication of how rough the Wild West really was; especially when you looked around the cemetery. It had the reputation of a hard Godless town. From ...

Hello from Vegas. Joy arrived safely after some small dramas with her flights, and Jamie has left us to go back to her family. We managed to have dinner together and then I had to say goodbye to someone that has become one of my closest friends. I'm hoping it won't be too long before we catch up again. This place is like a weird and very strange wonderland. Lots and lots of people, families, groups and god knows what else. The casino's have to be seen to ...

May 31 It was cold in the morning. Up to go pee and then had some cereal while sitting in the van, which was a bit warmer than the outside temperature. Packed up camp and then went on an amazing hike down into the canyon and amongst the hoodoos. It was a loop, so went down one trail and back up the other. The hoodoos are quite unique and beautiful, and we not only had views looking down, but back up at them too ...

Today we left our lovely suite at the Wynne which the Lonely Planet describes as upholding the city's decadent reputation with a 50 story curved tower covered in bronze glass and is as swanky as it gets. The entire place exudes an air of secrecy - the entrance is obscured from the strip by a man made mountain, which rises seven stories tall. Inside the Wynn resembles a natural paradise - with mountain views, tumbling waterfalls, fountains and ...

... I am trying to work out some other arrangements, but right now it is all up in the air. All I know is, I am going to Bodh Gaya. I will not give that up for anything. Meanwhile, I will post some more pictures from the CA leg of my journey and probably not make another entry here until I have arrived in SE Asia in mid-October. This site has been acting strangely lately, so if there are no pictures, check back in a few days and maybe I will be successful.

... might try to blow up the dam. The traffic was crawling, tourists were everywhere, it was 104 outside, and I had Peter Gabriel's "Passion" CD cranked up (the soundtrack from "The Last Temptation of Christ." It was fairly surreal. I drove all the way here with only a few short stops for gas, bathrooms, and rootbeer. It was too hot to want to stay out of the car ...

... being the last site of a Silver strike. They also claim they are the birthplace of the stealth bomber and best place to view the night sky. I think their stretching it. There are other much smaller communities close to where Area 51 is supposedly located. On our trip to Death Valley, we missed the opportunity to see the fences of the military installation. Oh well. Tomorrow, we are heading to Reno, NV. Then we will head to San ...