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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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Clouds (No. 920)

Millard County, UT

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roadie1963 · 2 months

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Spotlight Nevada: Ride the "Loneliest Road in America": Route 50

Image by Óscar Aguilar Elías from Unsplash.com Are you craving the peace and isolation of roads outside the boundaries of civilization to explore on your bike away from cars, the city, and even other people? Then a ride across Nevada might be worth investigating. Once there, you can ride the “Loneliest Road in America” as a journalist from Life magazine proclaimed back in the 80s. Yes, there’s…

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#Bicycle Travel #Bicycling #Cycling #Loneliest Road in America #Nevada #Road Cycling #Route 50

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patrick-jennings · 2 years

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I have to admit there are an overabundance of road pics in my catalogue, photographs in which various streets, highways, byways and gravel tracks from my travels serve as the primary subject of a landscape. Mind you, I'm not apologizing for that....

I have to admit there are an overabundance of road pics in my catalogue, photographs in which various streets, highways, byways and gravel tracks from my travels serve as the primary subject of a landscape. Mind you, I’m not apologizing for that. We photograph and write about what we know and love, and I love few things more than being behind the wheel of a car (or pedaling a bicycle) through…

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#fisheye #highway #journey #Loneliest Road in America #Nevada #photography #postaday #roadtrip #the road #travel #United States of America

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danbrekke · 2 years

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Loneliest Roads

U.S. 6, Nye County, Nevada. At some point in the not so ancient past — July 1986 — Life magazine off-handedly dubbed U.S. 50 across Nevada “the loneliest road in America.” The picture caption that included that phrase also quoted an auto club official as saying of the highway: “It’s totally empty. There are no points of interest. We don’t recommend it. We warn all motorists not to drive there…

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#Loneliest road in America #u.s. 50 #U.S. 6

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williammarksommer · 9 months

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Overland Saloon

The Loneliest Highway series

Lincoln Highway (Nevada)

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standbackimblogging · 2 years

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"The Loneliest Road in America" Highway 50, Nevada

#The Loneliest Road in America #highway 50 #desert #smoke #road trip #Travis Wick

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gobbluthbutagirl · 11 months

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just decided how i’m getting back to california

#not joking btw i was like america’s loneliest road? i have ALWAYS wanted to drive that #remember how i took i-10 the first time even though i-40 would have been faster because i didn’t want to go through arkansas #well i’m delighted to announce that i literally have not grown or changed at all as a person since then

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everjoslightly · 27 days

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Cover art by @anyaboz Hearthbound is a 10-episode musical audio drama and a queer reimagining of the Odyssey. Ride with us through the ridges and the ruins of the Great Basin, as we follow Odessa in a scrappy old van, rattling along the Loneliest Road in America back to Penelope.

Embracing the spirit of hopepunk and found family, Hearthbound explores what it means to return to a place different from when you left it and whether it's worth returning at all. We've got campfire songs and sea shanties and highly specific bird call cues.

We're pretty sure you'll like this if you like Vienna Teng, Station Eleven, Kentucky Route Zero, or hot butches. If this sounds like your jam, you can sign up for our newsletter on our website to get the latest on a premiere date!

#Hearthbound #audio drama #fiction podcast #the odyssey #odysseus #wlw #queer #homer #greek mythology #sapphic

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ceph-the-ghost-writer · 20 days

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WIP Questions Tag

Rules : Answer as many (or as few) of the questions about your WIP as you can.

Tagged by @drawnecromancy! Read their answers for Le Prix du Sang here.

1. What was the first part of your WIP that you created?

Apophenia was originally a short story called "Dysthanasia" I wrote for an event on Ao3. Now Dysthanasia is the name of the series overall, and the story's a novel-length rough draft in the process of being rewritten.

2. If your story was a TV show, what would the intro song be?

Something short, instrumental, and spooky but with a touch of whimsy. Gotta have that little spark of fun or it'd wind up taking itself too seriously.

3. Who are your favourite character(s) and why?

I'm in love with all of them, but I have to stand by my protagonist, Isaac. He's a squishy human nerd, with no supernatural powers to speak of, but through being resourceful and more than a little lucky manages to survive awful situations. A lot of his characterization has to do with principles and compassion, but not quite in the soft or naive way readers might expect. His enemies repeatedly try to buy or break him, punishing him every time he does what he feels is right, but Isaac remains defiant, refusing to become jaded or take the easy way out. Is he destined to become a martyr? A monster? Stay tuned.

4. What other pieces of media could share a fan base with your WIP?

I'd hope The Vampire Chronicles fans would get into it. Maybe The Witcher fans, as far as characters relying on each other in an unjust world goes? Possibly readers of Octavia Butler, whose work I enjoy. I guess anyone who likes fictional organizations and the paranormal might see the appeal.

5. What has been your biggest struggle while writing your WIP?

Juggling all the backstory and worldbuilding that influences the characters and plot. So much happens before the actual story even starts. The death of Isaac's family. Renato becoming a bloodborn and his eroding loyalty to his sire. A cataclysm that reshaped the map. I'm doing my best to make these come through the text without hitting the reader with a wall of exposition.

6. Are there any animals in your story?

Living and undead! There's Renato's beloved goldfish, Tesoro. The elk, coyote, and bear Motley transforms into. Likewise the species of sharks that some of the good people of Eureka, Nevada can turn into. Or the livestock they raise, mainly sheep, goats, and chickens.

7. How do your characters get around?

Electric cars, horses, trains, or by turning into a much quicker animal.

8. What part of your WIP are you working on right now?

I think I'm almost halfway through the outline for the rewrite? Isaac is getting to know the supernatural locals of America's friendliest town on its loneliest road, and they him.

9. What aspects of your WIP do you think will draw people in?

Renato being a hot vampire, and there being different factions to identify with will probably lure some in. Hopefully they decide to stay for the characters, emotional arcs, and end of the world too.

Dysthanasia Taglist (Sign up or ask to be +/-): @thecyrulik @thatndginger @sunset-a-story @space-writes @scoundrelwithboba (feel free to consider this a tag for the game itself too)

Additionally @izzyspussy @wintherlywords @authoralexharvey @chauceryfairytales @autumnalwalker @revenantlore @captain-kraken @angsty-prompt-hole

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1. What was the first part of your WIP that you created?

2. If your story was a TV show, what would the intro song be?

3. Who are your favourite character(s) and why?

4. What other pieces of media could share a fan base with your WIP?

5. What has been your biggest struggle while writing your WIP?

6. Are there any animals in your story?

7. How do your characters get around?

8. What part of your WIP are you working on right now?

9. What aspects of your WIP do you think will draw people in?

#dysthanasia #writeblr #writing tag games

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myemuisemo · 2 months

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POLYGAMY. In "A Flight for Life," this week's Letters from Watson, young Joseph Stangerson just oh-so-casually mentions that he currently has but four wives, while young Drebber (proven uncouth by having his hands in his pockets and whistling) already has seven.

Poor Lucy! Having come into the chapter with the assumption that, since other wives hadn't come up in Brigham Young's original visit, Lucy would be wife #1, this revelation seems much worse. Women are not Pokémon: no need to catch them all.

As an aside, where are Lucy's friends among the girls of Salt Lake City? Ferrier attended religious services. She must surely have socialized with other girls. Making her Not Like Other Girls seems othering toward the rest of the women: whether they were stolen from wagon trains, born to the culture and miserable, or born to the culture and relatively happy in working the system to be comfortable-ish, they were also people with thoughts and value.

Utah's Adventure Family does a photo tour of the Jacob Hamblin Home, where the parlor seems plausible to envision as Ferrier's parlor, right down to the rocking chairs -- here. Hamblin's stone house was built as part of a mission to convert the local Paiutes. Part of the reason for that U.S. Army expedition in 1857 was fear that the LDS community was turning the native peoples against Americans (which, given how badly Americans and our government treated the natives, would not be that difficult to do).

Horror! Mystery! Ninja Danists! White hero who knows the ways of the native peoples! (That's a trope.) Does Lucy know anything that's going on? Her Victorian purity seems to be winning over her Spunky Western Girl nature, even before we get her "death before dishonor" line.

So we're off to Carson City, Nevada. This means it's definitely at least 1859, since the city wasn't founded until 1858, as a deliberate effort to set up a capital for a proposed Nevada Territory that would separate Nevada's small population from the Utah Territory. The miners and opportunists in Nevada didn't like being governed by the LDS leaders in Salt Lake City. (Brigham Young was governor of the whole territory until the 1857-8 Utah War that appears not to have happened in this timeline.)

Carson City is a long walk. Google Maps is giving me 192 hours, mostly along what's now US-50, known as "the loneliest road in America." Even if we posit more activity due to miners heading west, it is still a haul across rugged mountains, and so, so much desert. (The route does legit skip the salt flats.)

If nothing goes wrong, our little party will be on the road for about a month, through hostile terrain. When they arrive in Carson City (population 714), they'll still be technically within the Utah Territory, as Nevada Territory wasn't split off until 1861. However, it'd take a determined party to come after them, and they wouldn't get a friendly welcome.

(Carson City now has a population of about 60,000, along with the state capitol, some nice late Victorian architecture, and a bunch of antique stores. It may be my favorite spot in Nevada.)

#sherlock holmes #letters from watson

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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The USA created Nevada Territory out of the Nebraska and Utah territories on March 2, 1861.

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thechembow · 6 months

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The Loneliest Road

Oct. 16, 2023

From Carson City to Salina, Utah, we completed our gifting of US Highway 50 today, the loneliest road in America.

There was only light DOR in the morning which was transmuting quickly. There were very few "planes" all day on the entire drive and they were all struggling, with short trails, some curving and breaking. There were areas where there had been recent rain in Nevada, and even green grass in some places.

As we got closer to Utah, we saw very defined stumps of ancient silicon trees. The destruction was very complete here. The land was open and desolate this whole trip. There were few towns and they were over an hour apart at times. There were also few cell towers, but what there were are gifted now, and many more towerbusters were thrown in between.

The road was relentless, with one summit and wide valley after another and the several hundred miles seeming to last forever. The towns we passed through were weathered old west towns which maintained their history in the bleak landscape. The land will transform and re-green this winter and spring, with snow and new lakes forming following this gifting.

#orgone #orgone energy #orgonite #orgonite gifting #geo-restoration #nevada #utah #carson city #salina #highway 50 #travel #desert #planetary healing

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patrick-jennings · 2 years

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Centre Line

A journey of a thousand miles Begins with a centre line

A journey of a thousand miles Begins with a centre line (more…)

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#driving #highway #journey #Loneliest Road in America #micropoetry #Nevada #photography #postaday #roadtrip #the road #travel #United States of America

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muttball · 7 months

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Loneliest Road in America

#travel #photography #scenery #travel america #muttball

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williammarksommer · 8 months

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The Road Turns into Darkness

The Loneliest Highway series

Lincoln Highway (Nevada)

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breakingournecksforhome · 7 months

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I can’t explain how much my sense of self and everything has changed by moving across the country (only for four months but still). Seeing places that I’ve wanted to see since I was a child looking at my dads landscape photography books. Driving on the loneliest road in America at sunset. The wild horses, the overlook. The snow in may. I feel like my heart is open again and I am a changed person. I don’t know exactly how but it is good. Thank God.

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