Over the weekend, I visited Pahrump, a desert town about an hour outside of Las Vegas, NV. I went to high school out there and an old friend of mine from school was visiting some family out there; since I hadn’t seen the friend in close to 10 years, I decided to trek down there myself to catch up.

Some random thoughts from the trip:

1. I didn’t know you could make jerky from salmon, but I have a package of salmon jerky now.
2. There are some interesting ghost towns out there that I wish I spent more time visiting when I lived down there. I finally visited Rhyolite, which is definitely one of the better preserved ghost towns in the country.
3. It’s really fascinating to see where some of the people I went to school with ended up. For example, quite a few of my friends never graduated high school, though most of them eventually received their GED. However, most of them aren’t doing too badly. One of them is now a cameraman for a TV station in Las Vegas, for example. The friend that I was trying to catch up with now manages a Staples in Indiana. Education is important, don’t get me wrong, but it’s rather impressive how far you can get without a formal education in this country with a little bit of effort.

That’s all for now. I’ll post something a little more substantial tomorrow.

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