This most recent road trip is over, and I am back home right now. How did this whole thing go? Well, I didn't really accomplish anything that I wanted to accomplish. I wanted to see Boise, Idaho, but that didn't happen. I think that this whole road trip started on Friday, June 21st after having kind of a slow week while Door Dashing, when things aren't busy I start thinking about things, and I started thinking that I might as well go on a road trip. I dropped my Summer classes at UNLV, so I don't have any school related responsibilities, and, any kind of road trip north would have to take place during the summer, maybe road trips in general should be done during the summer.
So my first thoughts before setting out on this road trip were: Alaska. take a road trip to Alaska, and if that's not possible, then a road trip through the Pacific North West, as well as see some parts of rural northern California, and rural northern Nevada. None of that happened. At Ely I booked a room at a motel, but I couldn't sleep, and I eventually got hungry, and I basically couldn't find anything to eat either, and as the hours passed and checkout time approached and I still hadn't fallen asleep, I kind of got discouraged and figured I'd head back home via Reno. Reno is about the same distance from Ely as Boise is, but heading to Boise would have added another day to the trip back. So I figured I'd forget Boise for the time being
If I has successfully had some kind of sleep when I was in Ely, I probably would have continued on to Boise, but then, maybe not, who knows, but that lack of sleep the entire night made me extremely pessimistic about the whole trip. Or, well, maybe not pessimistic, but less optimistic. but there were also a few things that I did accomplish during this road trip that I wanted to accomplish on previous road trips, but that I didn't accomplish on those past road trips. About this time last year I took a short road trip to see the Mormon Crickets, I didn't see them last year, and I did see them this year. and one time I wanted to see Tonopah, and I did do that this year.
Seeing the Mormon Cricket migration was not exactly a pleasant experience. You can't really keep your windows down in the middle of a cricket swarm, so, there's that, and there this kind of miasma of crushed raisins, which isn't unpleasant or anything, and then, it was hot, the windows are up, and there kind of an issue with the road, there are a lot of sharp turns at steep declines, and sharp turns and steep inclines, and abrupt changes from sweep inclines to steep declines, so, in a stick shift this whole thing is really exhausting. I found this whole thing more challenging than the drive through Colorado. This happened on the road from Ely to Fallon.
Fallon was an interesting town, it was something like an hour from Reno, and it's a small rural farm town. Most of the rural towns that I've come across are old mining towns, or Army or Air Force towns, I think that there was even a Coast Guard town as well. The trip back from Reno to Las Vegas was really interesting, it took me back through Fallon. I passed through Fallon from Ely to Reno, and then again from Reno back to Las Vegas. I think it was because I missed an exit somewhere, or maybe the more direct route was an hour longer or something, but the road from Reno to Las Vegas was interesting in a way the road from Las Vegas to Ely was not, or from Ely to Fallon. Those road were really empty, not a rest stop of gas station for hours. Reno to Las Vegas there is a new small town every hour to two hours. and that was kind of nice.
Changes are needed to make new
places where these old things used
to be where these new things change
back into old habits which tend to die hard
which tend to change into old things that change back
to new things that these are old and changed.
One of the issues that I'm trying to address by using mixed zone districts has to do with commute times, as well as the issue of people not really taking industrial jobs unless they live near the industrial jobs.
There is also another reason that I'll often build residential zoning near industrial zones: if an area is too desirable, it results in nothing but high-income or high-wealth neighborhoods. So if I want low-income residents in my city, unfortunately, I have to create un-desirable neighborhoods.
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