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The Black Rock Desert: Exploring the middle of nowhere...
The following appears in the June, 2009 issue of RLife Magazine
I closed my eyes and kept pedaling. You'd be surprised how hard it is to stay upright on a bicycle without any visual reference. It was quiet; no sound of cars, or people, or dogs barking or birds or anything of any kind. Just a slight wind at my back. I opened my eyes. When I closed them I'd been going into the wind. There was nothing and no one in sight. I'd been riding blind for maybe 5 minutes and now Trent, who had been just ahead of me, was gone.
Into the desert
I slowed and stopped, turned every direction. It was my first time out in the Black Rock Desert about an hour and a half northeast of Reno near Gerlach, Nevada. The vast area of almost perfectly flat land is called a playa, which means it once was the bottom of a large lake and the silt and minerals that compose its surface are left over from evaporating water.
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I closed my eyes and kept pedaling. You'd be surprised how hard it is to stay upright on a bicycle without any visual reference. It was quiet; no sound of cars, or people, or dogs barking or birds or anything of any kind. Just a slight wind at my back. I opened my eyes. When I closed them I'd been going into the wind. There was nothing and no one in sight. I'd been riding blind for maybe 5 minutes and now Trent, who had been just ahead of me, was gone.
Into the desert
I slowed and stopped, turned every direction. It was my first time out in the Black Rock Desert about an hour and a half northeast of Reno near Gerlach, Nevada. The vast area of almost perfectly flat land is called a playa, which means it once was the bottom of a large lake and the silt and minerals that compose its surface are left over from evaporating water.
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