Re: Stranded in Utah With No Money: A Trip Report
I was with a friend driving back from CA when we stopped for gas in Fallon, NV. It was about midnight on a Friday. The Bronco we were in wouldn't start again, and we had to push it to a parking space and wait for the next morning. The next day being a Saturday, there were only a couple places open, and the mechanic at the oil change place we took it to first said that it needed to go up on a lift to be fixed. Welcome to a weekend in sunny Fallon!
After staying in a fleabag motel for a couple days and getting stared at by townies - a rare situation where the whole room legitimately went silent, like in the movies - the car was fixed on Monday and we drove East. Just outside of town, we saw a mile marker. "Elko, NV - 300 miles." Thank god we broke down just before the desert instead of sometime in the middle.
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