… it rains in the desert in western Utah.
road trip 2018
fading into history …
… in the Utah backcountry.
desert living …
… long ago in the Nevada outback.
storybook …
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… on the side of a 160-year-old, once-upon-a-time Pony Express station.
abandoned …
… a deteriorating bar in the Nevada outback.
Just before I heard the rattlesnake …
… en route to the Sun Tunnels in Lucin, Utah.
abandoned …
… but well tagged. An old bar alongside Route 140 in northern Nevada.
wanderlust …
… along Grouse Creek Road in northwestern Utah.
abandoned …
… in my deserted ancestral homeland of Wilkins, Nevada …
a touch of grace …
… at 9,000 feet in Ashley National Forest in northwestern Utah.
bark …
… a posterized look at the bark of a tree on the Nevada-Oregon border.
the lookout …
burial …
Last spring, a close friend expressed growing stress and anxiety over an undertaking yet to come. I asked her to write her stress and anxiety on a small, white card and sign it. I put the card in my wallet. A few weeks later, at semester’s end, I drove to the Sun Tunnels in northwestern Utah. I buried the card there. My friend completed her undertaking brilliantly.
ye old corral …
… along Route 10 northeast of Castle Dale, Utah.
chaotic terrain …
… in Badlands National Park.
the Nevada outback …
… Route 140 east of 1000 Creek Pass near Denio Junction.
isolation …
… in the desert outback in northern Nevada off Route 140 west of Denio Junction.
powerless …
… an old International four-banger deserted in the outback in Wilkins, Nevada.
‘the loneliest road in America …’
… as marketed heavily by Nevada to induce more tourism. Welcome to Route 50.
a storm descends …
… over “the loneliest road in America,” Route 50 in Nevada.
gas up …
… it’s a long, dry road to Denio Junction, Nevada, from the eastern terminus of Route 140.
