Encontros!

Cruzando a região desértica do estado de Nevada, tivemos mais um encontro com o ANTILOCAPRA, o animal mais rápido das Américas. O mesmo, que comentamos em nosso último diário de bordo sobre o México. Este, estava sozinho no meio do deserto. Para saber mais sobre o antilocapra e sobre o Diário de Bordo do México 2, clique aqui.       …

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The Loneliest Road – Highway 50

Cruzamos grande parte do estado de Nevada pela Highway 50, considerada “The Loneliest Road” (a estrada mais solitária) dos Estados Unidos. Esse vídeo mostra um pouco por onde passamos… um belo nada!      

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Adventures with Javier

A lot of the time on this trip Emma is the chief Navigator. But sometimes Emma takes a nap and lets Javier, our Spanish-speaking, slightly scatterbrained GPS take charge of the navigational guidance. When we are in a big city with lots of freeways and on-ramps and off-ramps and seriously confusing spaghetti junctions, this can […]

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Nevada, not just aliens and neon lights

Since we completely failed to be abducted by aliens in Nevada, we felt it was time for some adventures of a different kind.  First up was a really big dam.  I guess we expected more. It wasn’t as large as we had imagined and what we had really wanted to do was visit the old […]

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The truth is out there

The truth is out there… although it isn’t as interesting as we’d hoped. After spending time at Burning Man and in Las Vegas we felt we had probably come as close as possible to encountering alien life forms. But that wasn’t going to stop us trying our luck on the Extraterrestrial Highway. For those of you […]

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The best places to lose your money in Las Vegas

From one strange town that appeared from the dust of the Nevada desert to another. Las Vegas seemed like the obvious next stop after a week at Burning Man. At a glance they might seem similar. Both springing up out of an otherwise barren desert. Both full of bright lights and constant action, events and […]

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Zion

From Vegas, we cruised up through that funny corner of Arizona. You can’t get here from anywhere in Arizona. Then, we pointed towards Springdale and Zion National Park. We were a little worried that it would be booked up with no available camp sites this time of year, but it was easy. There was plenty of […]

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Vegas Street Art

We were pleasantly surprised to see art in Vegas. Not in galleries, but on the streets. Some of the coolest stuff we’ve seen on downtown streets since Valparaiso.          

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Burning Man—Everyone else has an opinion on it, so we feel like we should.

At one point the explanation on the Burning Man website read that: “Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like to someone who is blind.”. We think this pretty much sums it up, but we […]

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The Fremont Experience

We went for a little walk around downtown at night so Bode could get a better sense of what this city is about. It’s one of those places that continuously appears in movies and now video games, so he thinks he has an idea of what it’s like. It’s supposed to be AMAZING. Of course, being here is something completely […]

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Vegas

It’s funny how quickly we forget. Being back in the U.S. means that I have to pump my own gasoline and I’m forced to watch TV commercials while I do it. And, airplanes overhead – lots of them. I haven’t seen an airplane in 3 months. I was just a little surprised that there were […]

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