This bizarre itinerary goes through ghost towns, saloons, art installations, kitsch attractions, unusual museums, absurd places, and the somewhat grotesque and mysterious oddities in the most unexpected places of this desolate area.
WEIRD WEST NEW VEGAS SERIES
Today we want to offer you a series of little-known stops in Southern Nevada to explore the eclectic spirit that distinguishes these places. Only the most avid road trippers can boast of having traveled the secondary roads that cut through the driest and most desolate areas of Nevada, for example, the Extraterrestrial Highway, the road known for UFO sightings road that passes by the mysterious Area 51.
WEIRD WEST NEW VEGAS FULL
Visiting Las Vegas – and the well known Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire in the surrounding area -is treated more like a quick stop between California and the states of Utah and Arizona, which are full of coveted and very popular destinations. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.Nevada is a very vast state indeed, yet most of the classic SouthWest road trip itineraries give visitors only a glimpse of the state. We had all the momentum we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. Not in any mean or military sense we didn’t need that. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.Īnd that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that.
booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change). Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket. My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights-or very early mornings-when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. “Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.
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