After saying our goodbyes to Rich's mom and dad, we headed out to Tonopah. It's a small mining town, and like all Nevada towns, it has gambling. here is what the billboard for the Ramada Inn says, "Roll Dice for Free Room". We got groceries and drove by the high school sign, "Home of the Muckers". Out of town we saw bands of wild horses and groups of free-ranging cattle. We passed the turn-off to the Extraterrestrial Highway and Area 51. The bare bones of the earth are exposed here. On the flanks of volcanoes that erupted 10,000 years ago, you can still see the black lava flows with hardly any vegetation. we saw black cinder cones and red ones. You could see the upthrusts of mountain ranges caused by long-ago earthquakes with their layered
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