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Roads
from the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier,
by Megan Edwards
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1-2 Day Trips from LV
Grande Dame of Grand Dams
Hoover Dam will be seventy years old next year. This means that if it were on the Strip, it would have been blown down at least a decade ago. But if age isn’t beauty on Las Vegas Boulevard, it is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado. Hoover Dam may not be the newest, biggest, or most expensive of its kind, but a million visitors a year don’t seem to care if it doesn’t merit any of those superlatives.
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Road Trip to San Francisco
Two words have been reverberating in the back of my head all summer. “Road trip” began as a whisper sometime back in May, and it grew steadily more insistent until it was a bellow I could no longer ignore. Summer is made for road trips, and summer is almost gone…
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To the River: Road Trip to Laughlin
If it gets too hot in the city, head for the waterfront, right? Yeah! Because it’s even hotter! That’s what I found out when I headed out to “the river” last weekend. I motored down to Laughlin, to be precise…
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Dude, Where’s My Bot?
Since the DARPA Grand Challenge was first billed as a race “from Los Angeles to Las Vegas,” I’m considering it a local event. This is very generous on my part, seeing as how…
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