Day 21 - Las Vegas NV to Jean NV

Woke up to a fine sunny day in my beautiful hookers & drugs motel. Looked up the maps a bit and then headed off towards Jean, just outside of Vegas. Took the back roads and after a while found a bit of a dirt road leading under the tracks and over a small hill. Stopped here and climbed up to the top of the hill and made a little nest under the rocks where I had a good view of the tracks. Got out my book and waited for the trains.

And waited.

And then saw a chopper…

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And lots of gliders being launched…

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Eventually, at 4pm, a train came past. By now I was well and truely on the wrong sides of the tracks to get the good light, but oh well.

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And then it was gone again.

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It was all pretty quiet, with nothing much happening. I15 roared away as always. Other than that, the sun sank lower and that was about it.

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And then the sun was setting.

 

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I drove into Jean to get a meal and had a very average buffet meal that was not worth the price. I finished up and decided that rather than drive many hours to the nearest real town, or fork over oodles for a casino bed, I would sleep in the car. So I headed back to my nice quiet spot. It was well off the highway with no traffic, and I had my sleeping bag and a nice warm car, so I set about turning the car into Motel Zero, aka free accomodation. I set up my tripod and camera to take some time lapse photos of the stars, and ran through them for many hours while I read my book.

Unfortunately with all the light pollution from Vegas and Jean, the photos weren't that amazing.

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About 1am I crawled into my sleeping back and rugged up nice and warm (with all the doors locked etc obviously) and went to sleep very quickly and soundly.

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