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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NevadaGram #184 – Gerlach, City of Dreams
South Tahoe Food & Wine Festival
See story and photos below
We drove to Gerlach north from Silver Springs, through Fernley, Wadsworth and Nixon — towns...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
