410 & Oakland - Nevada

OK so if you have never been to Nevada and wonder what it is like see the above picture and then picture that for 410 miles. Nevada is full of absolutely nothing. As we were driving through on the way to Oakland I was surprised at how desolate and barren Nevada is but it didn't really bother me to bad because I was excited to get down to Cali and see the game. On the way back the vastness of Nevada's nothingness couldn't be ignored. Ever little podunk town we came to made us wonder what in the world was wrong with those people to make them want to live in hell. To be fair to any of you Nevadans that might be reading this your state probably has something cool to see besides casinos but it sure as heck isn't close to I-80. The only reason we even stopped in Nevada was to get fuel. On the way to Oakland we stopped in a place called Puckerbrush.

Ah Puckerbursh, for those of you who have made the trip across Nevada via I-80 and you don't recall Puckerbrush don't be alarmed. If you happened to blink or were doing more then 80 mph when you went through chances are you totally missed Puckerbrush. The tow supposedly has a population of 28 but I don't see how that is possible as the only thing in Puckerbrush is a truck stop. There isn't even a westbound on ramp in Puckerbrush you have to drive down a frontage road for a few miles to get back onto the interstate. As I was writing this blog I decided to Google Puckerbrush and see what comes up. I couldn't find it on a map or find a zip code for it but there were a couple mentions of the town on a few websites. This is from rockymountainroads.com

"Exits 149-151 (Mill City/Dun Glen/Unionville) provide access to the pseudo-town of Puckerbrush. Cruising by at 70+ mph, all you'd see is a large Burns Brothers truck stop. The frontage road (old U.S. 40) between Exits 149 and 151 has a sign indicating that this is a real town with 28 people. However, the State of Nevada does not recognize this "town" at all … it is just a ploy by Burns Brothers. But it is a nice place to stop and gamble! And with that, we are in Winnemucca."

For more Puckerbrush fun check out this link.

http://janestrip.blogspot.com/2005/10/how-i-got-lost-in-puckerbrush-nevada.html

Moving past Puckerbrush. I can see why people want to dump nuclear waste in Nevada. There is nothing there that would be harmed by tons and tons of nuclear waste. The drive across Nevada was so boring that my friends and I started to come up with new state motto's for Nevada. Here are a few of the better ones.
Nevada - we suck and we know it
Nevada - America's landfill
Nevada - Three feet from hell