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oh, oh, OHIO
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Sometimes it is not too easy to carry on with my work, due to lack of motel facilities, but they are surely brave for trusting me working in these conditions!

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A last view of Salt Lake City, UT, before leaving Utah, to cross the Nevada border.
Salt or sand? Or nothingness?

SALT!! And nothing else.

Guess why Salt Lake City's got this name? Maybe because of the Great Salt Lake? The biggest extension of salty water not being a sea? Bravo.
But what is really impressive is the Great Salt Desert: miles and miles of salt. You might get the impression it is never going to end.

3 stars, at the most, in MY food guide.

And when the times comes: brief lunch in a "Chinese Polynesian American Restaurant".
My version: Chinese food in a restaurant run by Polynesian people immigrated in the USA.

It received 3 stars in my soon to be released food guide.
This SHOULD be a casino's cowboy (30 feet high)

And finally: the border. Like Moses crossing the Red Sea, we cross the line between the state of perfection and purity, and the state of sin and perdition. ;-))

I'm being ironic, of course!
The long road leading home!

Imagine what the pioneers felt when passing by this place a century ago.

And Nevada is beautiful, oh my, it is surely awesome!

The desert is at the same time scary and very fascinating!
And the skies! The impression of emptiness and infinite roads.
We finally perceive that the Earth is not flat as commonly believed, but round, and hilly ...
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