I’m back in Sunnyvale. Few days at home, then back to the desert. I’m in a kind of system shock: I think I’ve seen more cars/people today than I did in the prior 2 weeks. I don’t like it. Oh, and I lost my cellphone, I think. I need to 100% unpack to make sure, [...]

Hi guys! Well, I finally figured out that my wireless inside my laptop is receiving, but not transmitting, which means that it can’t connect to anything, no matter how many rain dances I do or how many times I say ‘poot’ at it or how many hours I spend doing tech support conversations with Don. [...]

Just a short ride. We didn’t set out from the motel until almost throwing-out time. In the morning we went on a short but ultimately quite unsatisfactory snarfari (looking for markers) in downtown Carson City. It was already too hot to be walking around at nine. Because Don had to go back, we decided to [...]

In the morning I found this car had arrived overnight. It was marked “Scotland on Tour” with Scottish radio station stickers, and “states conquered” chalked on the side. They were almost at the west coast having crossed the entire country. So cool! I stuck a note under their windshield, but it was breezy and I [...]

So, I went to my first ghost town today. I took a bunch of carefully framed pictures that *would* have been awesome: printable in magazines if I chose to write an article. My STUPID camera’s dial got twisted round to “P”. “P” setting produces pictures at a 640 x 480 pixel resolution. Absolutely and completely [...]

This is what it’s like: 20 miles there and 20 miles back down a lonely and picturesque valley. Free range cattle, sitting by the roadside looking bored. A visit from an antelope. The only vehicle I met was right at the end, heading off down some dirt track.

There are three state landmarks down highway 400. I got two; the third was at the end of a 3-mile dirt road. It looked un-technical, but I didn’t want to attempt it. The silence is so thick down there that it is almost a noise in itself. The wind rushes eerily through my helmet. Being [...]

I spent the night in Lovelock. It’s a nice little town and the motel, with wireless, was right next to Safeway. I got a salad–the first fresh food I’d had since the start of the week. Mmm. I wish convenience stores sold things like carrot sticks or fruit. As I set out to look around, [...]

Hello, let’s try that again, since I accidentally hit “off” instead of “send”. I’m about 40 miles west of Twin Falls, where I was sometime earlier this morning as well, (wind noise)…one of those days. I got almost as far as the intersection of 225 in Nevada, only to find a great big sign saying [...]