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] Date Posted:00:37:55 09/25/09 Fri In reply to:
Boyd
's message, "Re: Nevada Place Names" on 00:04:59 09/25/09 Fri
>My wife and I once drove up U.S. 95 from Las Vegas to
>Reno. Talk about desolate. Along the way my wife
>remarked that all the people living around 95 were
>probably going to heaven. When I asked how she knew
>that, she replied that they all lived in hell now so
>heaven was the only place they could go. And they call
>U.S. 50 which runs east to west through central Nevada
>from Utah to Lake Tahoe the "loneliest road".
>
>Boyd
I have made the drive from Vegas to Reno several times, and I don't really find it all that desolate. Yes, most of the towns along the 95 are pretty isolated, but I quite like many of them; they've got all these interesting buildings and all this history just laying there, and I think a lot of them would be wonderful places to live and visit if they had the money and inclination to fix them up and try to build up some sort of historical/cultural tourism. That may be just because I'm sort of a rural desert girl myself, though I've never lived anywhere quite as small as, say, Mina or Goldfield.
In any case, they are not the most isolated places I've been through; I once went through a "town" (a collection of settlements, really) in the southeast of California (probably not far from Beatty, actually!) where the only way in or out was this teeny tiny dirt road. I have no idea how these people go grocery shopping or survive on a day to day basis; in fact, Shirley's family ranch in the story quite reminds me of what I saw there, and I kind of picture it as being in the same geographic location.
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