r/overlanding • • 15d ago

Trip Report Just miles of nothing.

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BLM land is a special thing we have in this country.

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u/Educational-Can-2767 15d ago

For now. We have it…for now

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u/TheGisbon 15d ago

I'm on this journey because I'm scared to death I won't be able to again. Let me be wrong, I'll never be so happy

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u/thatonefrickindude 15d ago

Yes it is 

Now vote for people who won't destroy it or give it to billionaires

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u/TheGisbon 15d ago

Fund the land. Not billionaires!!!

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u/Left-Spare-9702 15d ago

Sunsets like that out there just hit different

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u/TheGisbon 15d ago

It's a complete different experience than down south. "big sky" country really doesn't even do justice to how incredible it is.

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u/moving_threads 15d ago

What a beautiful photo!

Being from Texas, I agree, it’s so different from the south. I spent a year driving around the west/PNW and learned to appreciate how much accessible land there is.

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u/TheGisbon 15d ago

This spot was off 77 near the Petrified Forest National Park

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u/crevasse2 14d ago

I thought I was gonna hate driving through Nevada and initially planned to haul ass through i80. Then found the higher elevation route on highway 50 which turned out to be possibly the best choice on a 90 day trip. It's stark, barren, secluded, empty and spectacular. Nevada is 63% BLM, 80+% federal land. Nevada has more named mountain ranges than any other state at 314. We were just high enough in elevation to not need AC when i80 planned stop was mid 90s. Don't tell anyone.

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u/CrayonMayon 14d ago

Hwy 50 is fucking awesome

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u/Illustrious_Egg_1837 14d ago

Stark, barren, secluded — but awesome. Could you see yourself living there, alone, for eternity ?

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u/crevasse2 13d ago

Nah, camping is the antidote to civilization where I kinda live nearby.

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma 15d ago

It's actually not nothing. It's teeming with life, just not human kind.

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u/TheGisbon 15d ago

You are right, but the lake of other humanity is. Nice.

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u/OhHaiMaaark 15d ago

Why do you leash your girlfriend to the truck?

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u/TheGisbon 15d ago

She tends to wander off and get lost.

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u/Illustrious_Egg_1837 14d ago

What is the wind like out there ?

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u/ravage214 14d ago

Cries in East Coast

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u/sn44 04 & 06 Jeep Wrangler Unlimiteds (LJ) [PA] 13d ago

Plenty of places to explore on the east coast... and they're not empty barren boring land.

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u/graceandreverence 14d ago

Love the land. Save the land.

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u/Necro_Codex 15d ago

Nah man, that's something. Dirt, shrubs, lizards, all the good shit.

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u/Jaw5hua 15d ago

Where is this?

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u/thejp74 13d ago

Perfection

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u/Moist_Literature_695 15d ago

god bless the land