NevadaGram #198 – Must See-Must Do, Hot Spring Getaway
It is traditional for us to unlimber our Nevada 'Must-See Must Do' list in this first edition of the New Year. In the past...
NevadaGram #197 — Virginia City at Christmastime
Virginia City is what's left of the Richest Place on Earth, and a major attraction for visitors in Nevada. It's a wonderful place to...
NevadaGram #196 – Following Mark Twain around Paris
On the 4th of July 1867, Sam Clemens was 32 years old and had acquired the beginnings of a reputation and a career by...
NevadaGram #195 – Incline Village, Crystal Bay and Coaldale
In all my years of exploring Nevada the most difficult place for me to get a handle on has been Incline Village. I could...
NevadaGram #194 – Laughlin, Art Flap at Baker
We'd been a long day on the road and running late, hurrying now that a sunset was setting the sky on fire, worried we'd...
NevadaGram #193 – A Drive down 95
Driving and jiving down 95, first stop in Yerington where we had some bad news: Kings Diner, last year's great Yerington discovery, is gone....
NevadaGram #192 – Snake Valley Days at Baker
All you have to do to get to Baker from anywhere in Nevada is to get on US 50 and drive east. That's what...
NevadaGram #191 – Dream Train to Elko, Comstock Mining Update
The 34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is scheduled for January 29-February 3 next year. Its theme will be "Basques and Buckaroos: Herding Cultures of...
NevadaGram #190 – Ichthyosaur Digs, Rural RoundUp in Elko, Nevada Calendar
Rural RoundUp 2017
This year's Cow Counties Tourism Pro-Am convened in Elko. Story below.
More than 500 fans of a Reno-brewed IPA, and of its namesake —...
NevadaGram #189 – Fallon’s Secret Revealed, The Nevada Calendar for April
Here's what Fallon has been so carefully guarding from the world: There is no quieter, calmer, sweeter or more secret getaway in Nevada than Fallon.
I...
NevadaGram #188 – Meet Me at the Martin, Nevada Calendar for March
In the summer of 2004 a man and his wife set out from Maine, heading west for their new life in Nevada, and on...
NevadaGram #187 – Snowbound at Tahoe, Nevada Correspondence, Comstock Mining Update
Mark McLaughlin
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NevadaGram #186 – Must See-Must Do in 2017, Carson City at Christmas, the January...
A Brand New Carson City was unwrapped at Christmas time.
Photo courtesy Carson City Pix
Not only had the last of the street barricades and detours been...



















