United States travel stories

October 12, 2002 Hit and Miss in Albuquerque

A thin sliver of light shoots up toward the heavens and bursts into a blossom of green, red, purple, and white, twinkling against the night sky as tendrils of shimmering color fade back toward eart...

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Part 3 - Reno to San Francisco - The Conclusion

I complete the circle and rejoin Interstate 80, soon passing a worn-out mile marker, humorously altered, that tells me "Mustang 1 Smile" before I realize that the best part of the drive is now behi...

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Part 2 - Ely to Reno

And so it is morning, the empty streets from last evening are still quiet. I make the crucial left turn onto US 50 west down the street from my hotel (and cheerless little casino), a bit relieved t...

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Part 1 - Into Ely

I study the clock with barely open eyes - 4:45AM. Dawn comes early to Ely, just a few dozen miles west of the boundary between Mountain and Pacific Time. It will take another a few more minutes f...

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Moab, UT to Ely, NV

What is there to do in Ely on a Saturday night? Humming "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" as you wonder aimlessly around your slightly dingy, low-ceilinged hotel room comes to mind. Not that the...

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