a little late but my blog from denio Nevada

Next time, either come or just stop me...

Yesterday I made the gruelling ten hour drive out of Vegas to Denio, Nevada to head to the opal mines. The first hour or two of driving weren't that bad, but ten hours was a bit much.

Not really knowing the exact location of the motel I wa staying at posed something of a challenge, but with gps in hand I was feeling good about things. The only catch was that the gps thiugt I arrived at the destination twenty miles early. Normally this would not be a problem, but when it's past midnight with no cell reception on an 80 mile stretch of road with no lights...trust me, it gets a bit nerve wracking.

I finally got to the motel about one in the morning. They had left the door unlocked and the lights on so I would know which room was mine. Guess that says something about the part of the country I'm in.

I got up a little later than I had planned this morning. The drive out to the mines themselves was really nice. The drive to the actual mines are a bit sketchy with a small car going over rough unpaved terrain in a national wildlife preserve.

When I got here, I found out I would have to wait till noon to head out to the dig site, which means i'm going to be heading back to vegas two or three hours later than I anticipated.

I almosttjought about just leaving, but with the trouble it took me to get out here, there's no way I was just going to turn around and head back. The bigger thong is that I'm getting to do something my father really wanted to do. With the extremely limited time I have to dig, I may not find anything, but I'm hopeful that my dad will throw something into my bucket.

I'm not exactly lookin forward to the drive tonight, but at least the gps is taking me BACK to Vegas instead o to the middle of nowhere.

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