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24 hours and twenty-five hundred miles. A pilgramage to the desolate remnants of borate-mining operations in what is today Death Valley National Park.
And a stop at a neon sign relics museum in Las Vegas.
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24 hours and twenty-five hundred miles. A pilgramage to the desolate remnants of borate-mining operations in what is today Death Valley National Park.
And a stop at a neon sign relics museum in Las Vegas.