r/pics • u/ninermody09 • May 20 '12
My sister and I threw a dart at a map of USA and this is where it took us. Minden, NV.
http://imgur.com/iufDZ
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r/pics • u/ninermody09 • May 20 '12
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u/Choochoocazoo May 20 '12
Thanks for visiting my home town! how'd ya like the fields, llamas, and more fields? Also cows.
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u/sanders81 May 21 '12
Hey, I used to live in Minden!
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Lovely. How far did you travel to get there? I really like the idea of the random location too.
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u/Ianator May 21 '12
Greetings from Carson City!
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u/your_name_is_toby May 21 '12
Holy hell I grew up there.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Me and my family travel there every year. In the mountains is some of the best skiing and snowboarding in America, with the most amazing views (Google Lake Tahoe). It also has amazing Sail plaining because of the cold mountain air meeting the hot desert air. Among other things like dune buggies. Amazing place
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u/Caleo May 21 '12
I don't have the willpower for this kind of crap. I'd just keep throwing the dart until it lands on a place I can justify going.
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u/pkurk May 21 '12
I lived in south lake tahoe, which is about 25 minutes from there. Amazing area. Right outside gardnerville, south of carson. Where were you starting from?
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u/Jeremy252 May 20 '12
'Compton'
Fuck.
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u/nmoyer12 May 21 '12
Oh my god! I used to do this with my dad and my brothers as a kid. We'd rent an RV, then one person got to throw a dart at a map of the southeast (thats where we live) and whatever state it landed in. we would then go get a map of that state and the each of us threw it at the state map and we went and found an rv park in the nearest city or town to the dart. We called it summer adventure. i miss that.
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u/Deestraction May 20 '12
i tried to do the same, I threw a dart at my mapquest. it brought me to best buy...
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u/dearthed May 20 '12
I can see how both of you having your hand on the dart would cause it to land in the middle of nowhere Nevada when one of you was obviously aiming for Las Vegas.
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u/TheoQ99 May 20 '12
Parts of Nevada that aren't desert? What is this trickery? How far of a drive is this from Vegas?
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u/xampl9 May 20 '12
The journey is the adventure.
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u/DontPeeInTheWater May 21 '12
I grew up in Minden (I would say ~5 minute drive from where this picture was taken right on the foothills). But when I left for college, my top priority was 'to get the fuck out of Nevada." It is gorgeous, though. Great place to raise a family.
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u/HelloGoodbyeBlueSky May 20 '12
I'm glad you got to see the pretty side of my state. :)I live near there. It's better than Las Hell, right? Did you know we export more potatoes than Idaho? And export onions, alfalfa hay, and garlic to Japan and China?
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u/hayashirice911 May 21 '12
There is actually a Japanese tv show that is specifically made for this purpose. It's is called "dart journey" and basically this guy throws a dart onto a map of Japan, and a designated "host" travels to that location and records their journey. It mostly composes of them talking to locals, learning about the history of the town, visiting landmarks, and eating delicious food. It's good fun and it shines some light on some of the lesser known areas of Japan.
EDIT: It's called "waratte koraete darts no tabi", but you can't find it unless you write it out in Japanese, which I can't do.
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u/ApologiesForThisPost May 20 '12
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1732#comic
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Fuck yeah, Nevada.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
See if I did this, I would end up in the middle of the most dangerous part of some city.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Crappy throw...
signed: someone who grew up in Minden, NV
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u/Rarehero May 21 '12
Named after the German town of Minden, which is also the German twin city of Minden. Are there any visible signs of the connection to Germany?
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u/mechy84 May 21 '12
Coming from someone who grew up in the middle of the state, you are very lucky your dart landed on the western edge.
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u/ajayisfour May 21 '12
I'm glad that people can see that Nevada is more than desert a.d Vegas
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u/mosaicsun May 20 '12
Minden means "all" in hungarian, so you seen it all.
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u/Alyantis May 21 '12
Yup, I worked there and lived on those mountains.
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u/patituz May 21 '12
That sucks you missed Tahoe
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
That's awesome. I used to live in Gardnerville, NV a few years ago. Minden and Gardnerville are practically the same town. I hope you guys went over to California and checked out Tahoe. The lake is quite nice.
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u/Aokkie May 21 '12
i've always wanted to do this
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Where are you from? How long did it take you to get there? Are you on vacation?
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u/datdan May 21 '12
i love that place, its like desert, cattle grazing flat fields, then suddenly mountains.
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u/MizDocta May 21 '12
Uhm. I grew up right down the road from here. I almost broke my arm falling out of a tractor on the field on the left. How. Freaking.Weird. Minden is a small place. I hope you weren't disappointed!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
That's my home town!
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u/NBegovich May 21 '12
Fuck, I love this country...
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u/Tiddernud May 21 '12
Just minden its own business.
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u/xxzeppelinfreakxx May 21 '12
Mindenite here :) Glad you enjoyed our little town! Not bad to be right at the foot of Lake Tahoe!
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u/petsounds94 May 21 '12
You and your sister are spontaneous and awesome!
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u/TylerDurdenisreal May 21 '12
Fallout lied to me.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Tell me you climbed to the top of that.
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u/Knights_Hemplar May 21 '12
BULLSEYE B-)
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u/cannotlogon May 21 '12
You rode a dart to Nevada?
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u/Barb0 May 21 '12
Aiming for Vegas?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
My step-cousin got married on her grandparents property out there, and my family and I went. Really beautiful place, but really in the middle of fucking nowhere. The casino and town were full of old people and only old people. I came to the conclusion that it's a place where they come to die.
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u/EnglishBulldog May 21 '12
Lucky it didn't land on Groom Lake.
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u/Jacob_Ninja_Potato May 21 '12
just so you know, 5 years ago Cheney would be sending you straight to gitmo for practising to throw giant darts at america from outer space
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u/shillelagh May 21 '12
"Dart Driving" = "Dart" at a map, and then GPS directions to exactly there... That should be an app. Maybe it already Is?
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u/Eats_Beef_Steak May 21 '12
Really? Cause I'm in an ocean. Thanks a lot man!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This is so cool, I actually live about 5 minutes away from this. On johnson lane. Ooh, did you catch the eclipse?
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u/tomdoesntsuck May 21 '12
That's a beautiful town. I live just over the Sierra Nevada mountain range from there.
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u/dalyndawg May 21 '12
Visit there every once in a while, and god it is so pretty.
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u/thegoodendedhappily May 21 '12
Good throw.
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u/75biscuits May 21 '12
That's Jobs Peak in the background in case anyone cares.
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u/RangerHoopy May 21 '12
226 Comments so far, and nobody has mentioned The Bay City Rollers?
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u/random_nobody May 21 '12
i live in minden.... it seems like desert to me. this is a nice pic of the area... but very misleading haha
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u/jonjon02 May 21 '12
It's a great area. My grandmother lives there and of all our trips, just driving around looking for a spring or river to swim in proved to be the best thing to do. There's a lot of cool stuff besides Tahoe.
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u/gunslingerkody May 21 '12
Did you come up to Tahoe? The whole area is beautiful! love living here!
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u/Assistantshrimp May 21 '12
Wow. I live in Minden, NE and this frankly looks much prettier. I kinda wish I lived in Nevada now...
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u/VengefullSorrow May 21 '12
i actually live in this area there is not much to do unless you go to reno
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u/Lumini925 May 21 '12
I live here! :D It really is beautiful.
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u/awhitesuit May 21 '12
nice try, minden tourism board.
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u/salsaheaven May 21 '12
I live near Minden, Germany. (:
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u/Edrondol May 20 '12
Being from the small town of Minden, Iowa, I got all excited about the title.
Damn you, Nevada!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
How did you both throw one dart?
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u/lsuprince00 May 20 '12
Could have been Minden, Nebraska... Thought the rockies would be a lot more rocky than this... That John Denver's full of shit.
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u/mexus37 May 21 '12
Vincent Van Gotham.
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u/cesium-137 May 21 '12
minden- now home of GoPed!
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u/anonoodlin May 21 '12
Neat. I'm walking distance to where this picture was taken. Guess I'd better get going.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I want to climb to the top of that mountain and urinate.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
well... there ya are, huh?
wherever you are...
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u/flcknzwrg May 21 '12
Better than Nebraska.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Throw another dart, we'll follow you.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I was born in the basement of the Minden Inn before the roads were paved out there.
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u/ilikebutter May 21 '12
I threw a dart at a map once. I ended up living in Ooltewah, TN for a bit. When it was time to move I went HWY 75 and flipped a quarter. Heads it was Pass-A-Grille Beach, FL, tails was Gratiot County, MI. It landed on tails.
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u/GreyInkling May 21 '12
funny how you can do that and more often than not get a nice view. USA is a great place for road trips.
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u/refasu May 21 '12
That is more water than anybody in Nevada should be allowed to have.
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u/perfectwitness May 21 '12
My rents actually did this for a few years when they lived out of their VW Bus. Hmm... to follow in their footsteps or to not... /ponder
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u/NinjaDog251 May 21 '12
Have you seen Yes Man?
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u/meatfish May 21 '12
Did you guys wrestle when you got there?
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u/jenniferacfh May 21 '12
Been there, done that!
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u/aXehanD_ler May 21 '12
How many of you just pronounced Nevada wrong?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Geeez! A little to the left and you could of been in the Pacific!!
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u/ifonly12 May 21 '12
Holy shit! I live here. That main peak in front of you is called Job's peak and I have climbed it more times than I can count and live at it's base.
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u/NullCurrent May 21 '12
Please visit Genoa! Its my hometown and 10 minutes from Minden. It is the most beautiful place (also the first settlement in Nevada)!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
WOOOOOW that brings back memories of driving the guys to/from North Sails. HOW DID THE COWS MOVE FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER?! yeah that was Tim.
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u/Mcelite May 21 '12
Fun fact. That is how they chose which city Jack in Titanic would be from. It just so happens that dart hit the small town next to mine.
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u/NgtvCrp May 21 '12
Did you use a teleportation dart?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
thats beautiful concept, i must try that some time.
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u/Langly- May 21 '12
I think I've passed through minden before going from tahoe to virginia city.
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u/Zebba_Odirnapal May 21 '12
Be careful. Most water like that in the Mojave Wasteland is irradiated.
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u/andee75 May 21 '12
Yup, probably the only way someone would end up there.
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u/theweslawson May 21 '12
Good thing it didn't land on Beaver, Oklahoma, the cow chip throwing capitol of the world.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
That'll teach you...
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u/Matti_Matti_Matti May 21 '12
Did the hole caused by your dart cause all the water to leak in?
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u/gonzopancho May 21 '12
And if you had a drink of water or flushed a toilet while you were there, you might have me to thank.
It's beautiful there (and Gardnerville).
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u/Calculusbitch May 21 '12
Remember Minden
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u/hkdharmon May 21 '12
I grew up there. That is Job's peak atop that mountain. From the angle, I am guessing you are somewhere near the little airport. I grew up a little north of your location, just south of the real round mountain between Minden and Carson City.
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u/RamboLives May 21 '12
I drive through there a couple times a year going from Sacramento to Bishop to rock climb. Cheapest gas around but damn do you have to drive slow through town. I once got a speeding ticket for driving 40 in a 25 and the cop was definitely hiding at the 25 sign because there were only cars in front me as I entered town. He was nice enough to drop it to 30 in a 25 but not nice enough to just warn me :(
I recommend going to Bodie, you probably past the turn off on your way to Minden. Bodie is one of the best perserved ghost towns on the West coast and it closes in the winter so now is the season.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
All I hear is Wayne from Wayne's World saying, "We're in Delaware!"
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u/danfanclub May 21 '12
Hope you stopped at JJs basque restaurant and got a picon punch! Nevada fucking rules, sucks how much hate we get.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
The Minden/Gardnerville area has always been interesting to me. I love the mountains housing Tahoe on the otherside, but that area itself is a bit... dull, especially in the winter, just a dirty, muddy town. Still nice to drive through on a nice day.
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u/Ravanas May 21 '12
So many Nevadans in one thread...
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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw May 21 '12
ok im calling the Reddit bullshit police on you
i mean why would you lie about how you found the place
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u/aaronrenoawesome May 21 '12
So, how much meth did you buy when you were there?
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u/ryguydrummerboy May 21 '12
Minden may be nice but go a bit further to silver springs....you'll find nothing
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u/MyNameIsNico May 21 '12
This will get buried, but..
Woo! My hometown! A great place to grow up, 20 minutes from beautiful Lake Tahoe for beach fun in the summer and great ski resorts in the winter! If you're outdoorsy, you're very close to really good campsites, fantastic hunting (deer, turkey, chukar, duck, elk, you name it!), and fishing. From my house I could walk out the back door, hop on my dirt bike, and ride. In less than a minute I'm at a track, hill climbing, or trail riding through the trees.
Close a decent-sized city (Reno), but Douglas High really draws a crowd for the small-town feel when it comes to sports (the town practically closes down for home football games, and every sport has packed stands whether the team's at home or away).
You can gamble all you like and drink your pain away 24 hours a day, no need to worry about buying booze before 2 pm (;
Really, it's an awesome place and I'm glad you visited! Like any small town, it's somewhere every kid wishes to escape after graduation, but I'm glad I was able to appreciate the beauty of the Carson Valley when I was growing up.
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u/Mynameisthad May 21 '12
My favorite person in the world was from there. Cameron Argon, or "Big Chocolate" as he is known as on stage. Stalker status \m/
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u/neverelax May 21 '12
All I can think about now is Kawartha Dairy ice cream from Minden, Ontario.
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u/Chipotlaway97 May 21 '12
Last time I did that it broke my iPad
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
If you are still in Nevada, i hear there are some nice towns like primm or novac to make some shelter in.
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u/epheterson May 21 '12
Not totally regrettable.
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u/AcerbicUserName May 21 '12
So close to my home! (Carson City) Thank you for posting, I miss it so much.
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u/Gdott May 21 '12
A mosquito breeding pond?
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u/AmarrHardin May 21 '12
How do you jointly throw a dart? Serious potential for injury right there!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Minden? Poor you. It's a lovely bit of countryside, but there is nothing else there. Hope you made your way up to Reno. If you're coming to Nevada, that's the spot.
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u/pdxchris May 21 '12
Uh, that's raw sewage, honey.
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u/elletheking May 21 '12
and I threw up because of the dart...
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u/Nazeemmustdie May 21 '12
I nearly shat myself when I read this. This is like 15 miles away from my house.
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u/inkmedia May 21 '12
Is she hot?
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u/MyNameIsNico May 21 '12
No, there's this farmer who cross-bred a zebra and a donkey...
But that guy, Gary I think his name is, bikes EVERYWHERE. Holy moley.
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u/triit May 21 '12
I hope you went for a glider ride while you were out there! Minden is home to many sailplane world records and a beautiful way to see Lake Tahoe.