Did pretty good on that one! I managed to find a map and weather thingies to put on the blog. Do not let the pretty map fool you. There are about 13,000 people in Cal City. Many empty houses and many more empty lots. But it does have thriving small business community. And with the big OHV area, long weekends bring a lot of folks to town. But everyone should see where the proverbial "middle of nowhere" is. Yeah, it's here.
And if you notice the forecast...........it is going to get nasty next week. The locals will be looking like Eskimos. The wind out here can carry a very sharp edge, though. And I have seen snow in the Mojave.
In a short while, I am out the door for some overtime! Just a few hours today and tomorrow. But it will help with the move. Rental Truck is at the house in Wichita as we speak. The Missus figures on being here, sometime on Thursday the 10th.
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But everyone should see where the proverbial "middle of nowhere" is. Yeah, it's here.
I think I could give ya a run for the "middle of nowhere" title. You're a mere hour and a half (depending on traffic) from El-Eh... I'm two hours from Lubbock or Amarillo... take your pick. Or two and a half hours to Albuquerque, heh.
I've seen snow in the Mojave, too... and it's quite beautiful. The BEST thing is: it doesn't last long. :-)
Both those places are mighty close to Fairly Major Metropolitan Areas. Where I'd like to be has no such industry and no place that's very big ANYWHERE near it - Scobey, Montana is the middle of nowhere. I just love it...of course, the last time I spent a winter there I was 10, so I might change my mind after a month of Winter (October or November).
I like map and weather thingies.
Might concede on Scobey. I was up there in 06 after almost forty years. Yeah.
But Portales is a fairly decent sized town. It even has a four year institution of higher learning. And Roswell is close and has everything one could want, like a Walmart. Been there, it's just been almost twelve years. And don't forget the mighty metropolis of Clovis, where your friendly class VI store is. Got lot's of time in Clovis on the ballast trains pictured to the right.
Heh. Clovis, aka The Big(ger) City... to me. And P-Ville has its own Wally-World now, Glenn. We're quite upmarket for a town of only 12K. Yet we ARE deprived of a great number of things (like decent restaurants and Starbucks, to name two) and have to drive quite a ways to get that stuff. No Starbucks in The Big(ger) City, either. Some folks maintain there are good restaurants there, but I demur.
re: Scobey. I did my time up in Montana... 12 months, three days, eight hours and ten minutes, to be precise about it. I lived in Westby but was actually stationed across the state line at Fortuna AFS in NoDak. I'm not saying we were remote or anything, but we used to drive over three hours SE to party in Minot. It was either that or Regina, Sask. ;-)
At one of those radar sites like north of Havre. There was always Plentywood! I could handle Regina for pub crawling! And they got the Roughriders!
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