Washington to Las Vegas
Summer 1998
Somewhere in the Nevada Desert
The Adventure: Trip from Washington to Las Vegas
The Adventurers: Fletch, Mike and Me
Time Frame: 4 days in July, 1998
Circumstances: I had just arrived in WA to hang out with some friends. Fletch and Mike just happened to be in town, heading down from Alaska, on their way to Las Vegas. I hooked up with them and went back down south to Las Vegas. A few days later, Scott McClure flew down to Vegas, picked me up, and we flew back up to Seattle.
Driving through the Redwood Forest in Northern California |
Celebrating Mike's birthday by hanging out in a strange bar in some small town in Northern California. drinking beer, playing pool, and watching country music videos. |
Sleeping by the side of the road in Northern California |
Driving up to Tahoe, swimming in some freezing river. |
Hitting 110 degrees as we dropped down into Owens Valley |
Sleeping on my grandparent's lawn |
Looking for the lowest point in Death Valley, getting mixed up, and ending up at 8000' |
Hitting 113 degrees in Death Valley at 8:00 am |
Swimming in some reservoir in the Nevada desert |
Climbing over fence to get down into Devil's Hole and look at strange fish |
Breaking Federal Law by climbing over fence |
Passing by an abandoned brothel in Crystal Nevada, a town that was not even on our map |
Searching out cheap food, free drinks, and 10¢ roulette |
Bumming around Vegas with Fletch and Mike |
Hanging out by the reservoir
On some dry late bed or something.
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Created 1998
Updated 1-17-1999