[LostTribe]

>Can't figure why we fought the Apache's for those deserts.

Gotta get those glasses changed. Must have been looking for the wrong thing.

I once looked at property but did not buy it, even though the price was right, because it didn't look good enough to raise corn and soybeans on. Several years later a hotel/resort went up on the property.

[xzins]

Yeah, you're probably right....all in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, I drove from LasVegas up to Reno on something like 93 or 95 (?). Along the way, except for a few extremely small towns, over a journey of maybe 300 miles along a wide well-built road I saw only a handful of houses....maybe 10 at the most.

Why would only 10 families have homes alongside a 300 mile long road?

It was barren desert.

But I guess the folks who lived there loved it. All in the eye of the beholder. But I'll bet a lot more "beholders" would see the beauty of our Appalachian states than would see the beauty of the desert.