[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.

[LostTribe]

>It was barren desert.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But your reaction is a common one among those seeing the desert for the first time. If you think only green is pretty, and are looking for green, it is not pretty.