Tag: Burning Man
NevadaGram #225 – Cowboy Joe, Carson Valley, Valley of Fire, Burning Man
by David Toll
If I hadn't slowed to look down the road west, I probably wouldn't have noticed the eight-year-old Chevy parked on the shoulder about 100 yards from the intersection. The hood of the...
NevadaGram #218 – Elko County Fair
We're on our way to the Elko County Fair but you'd never guess it from our route. Elko is on I-80, about 100 miles from the Utah line. Heading out from Gold Hill, about...
NevadaGram #216 – The Nevada Hall of Fame
The Nevada Hall of Fame
When it first occurred to me that Nevada has no Hall of Fame I envisioned a big sign on the outside of a large empty building.
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NevadaGram #217 – Eureka 4th of July, Yerington Museum, Fort Churchill
Nevada's biggest cities are near its edges, and as a consequence our city-dwellers don't have as much connection with small town Nevada as they might otherwise, and so they miss out on a big...
Dancing with Poop in his Pants
by Chicken John
Allow me to explain . . . Ya see, he had an idea for a camp-type thing at Burning Man. He and a bunch of friends were gonna build a windmill thing....
NevadaGram #205 – Hold that Tiger (and those Bears)
I don't quite know how to introduce the strange place in the desert we visited early in July. It is only ten miles off Interstate 80 at Mill City but far removed from what...
NevadaGram #184 – Gerlach, City of Dreams
South Tahoe Food & Wine Festival
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We drove to Gerlach north from Silver Springs, through Fernley, Wadsworth and Nixon — towns most visitors never notice, if they see them at all...
Elko Correspondence – February 2016
Elko
Megateuthis Makes its Debut in Elko
The giant, mechanical squid known as Megateuthis was a Burning Man sensation this summer. Elko artist Barry Crawford spent countless hours designing and making this sculpture. The installation at...
NevadaGram #169 — Lovelock Cave, Comstock Mining Update, Nevada Correspondence and More
One of Nevada's greatest attractions to visitors goes mostly unmentioned, even by our most enthusiastic promoters: Time Travel.
This is conveniently accessible and easy to do here, and one enjoyable way to do it is...
NevadaGram #159 – I-80 postcard from Shorty
Robin, Shorty and I recently made a pleasant trip across northern Nevada to update Shorty's book, and here is some of what we discovered along the way.
Two Burning Man art pieces and one locally...
NevadaGram #43 – Frenchies in Winnemucca, a Bad/Good Day in Black Rock City and...
We were up early on a sunny Winnemucca Saturday.
We gave Shorty a rare treat, a walk on level streets, and then headed for The Griddle. In the Nevada culture, breakfast at The Griddle...
NevadaGram #5 – Battle Mountain, “The Ghost Train of Old Ely” Goes to the...
Our travels have been somewhat curtailed by heavy workload in January. One product of the work is the spiffy new website for the Hotel Nevada & Gambling Hall in Ely, featuring the dancing burro....
NevadaGram #3 – Pahrump, Beatty, Battle Mountain Bikes Fallon Dining, Burning Man
Among the e-mails we received in October was this one from Ray Ellinwood of Findlay, Ohio. Thanks, Ray.
Pahrump's pioneer era is over.
Pahrump is having another growth spurt. Much of this rambunctious little city is...
