Great Basin Desert - We drove across Utah and Nevada, thru some of the emptiest land ever! One 80+ mile stretch, we saw only 5 cars, all going the other way. There's a whole lot of nothin' out here. While driving, sometimes I'd see a car behind us and a few minutes later, it would be gone. There are no side roads... where did it go? Did the aliens pick them up? Why were we rejected? ... Or were we? How would we know if we had been abducted by aliens? (insert theme song to "The Outer Limits" here) We thought we'd be too late to catch the Visitor Center open in Great Basin National Park, NV, but as we passed from Mountain Time into Pacific Time we gained an hour. Isn't time travel wonderful?

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