Days 9-10. 1/19/2016 – 1/20/2016. Starting Odometer: 143806. Final Odometer: 143993. Mileage: 187. Total Mileage 1827. I said goodbye to Las Vegas with a heavy heart. I love the city. I love its energy, its lack of inhibition, its lies and promises, how easily it breaks hearts, how quickly it raises moods and crushes souls.
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Full Circle Road Trip: Hoover Dam
Day 8. 1/18/2016. Starting Odometer: 143731. Final Odometer: 143806. Mileage: 75. Total Mileage 1634. I was in Las Vegas for a couple of days, and didn’t want to blow a huge amount of money on the strip. What to do? I decided to see the one man-made object in the entire state that was even
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Full Circle Road Trip: Las Vegas
Days 6-7. 1/16-17/2016. Starting Odometer: 143290. Final Odometer: 143731. Mileage: 441. Total Mileage 1559. With Great Basin National Park effectively snowed in, there didn’t seem to be much benefit in staying for another two days, as I’d originally planned. I took my time with breakfast, enjoying the silence, the random sounds of wild turkeys gobbling
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Full Circle Road Trip: Lehman Caves
Day 5. 1/15/2016. Starting Odometer: 143280. Final Odometer: 143290. Mileage: 10. Total Mileage 1118. I woke up in the middle of the night gasping and short of breath. I figured it was because it was my first night without a generator or electrical hookups — campsite rules state no generators after 10:00 pm. But as
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Full Circle Road Trip: Great Basin National Park
Day 4. 1/14/2016. Starting Odometer: 143042. Final Odometer: 143280. Mileage: 238. Total Mileage 1108. A light snow fell at dawn. The news said that a storm was coming, and would hit Salt Lake City about noon. That gave me the time I needed to see the capitol and get out before it hit. I had
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