Going to the Steem Creator Conference

On the Road to Vegas

Today is the day to go and meet a bunch of Steemians I have been following for a while. Some of them have been on Steemit for a while like the Garden of Eden folks - others are a bit newer to the platform. But the conference is promising to be lots of fun!!

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Ready. Set. Go!!!!

Got my personal chauffeur and am all set to relax for the 5-hour drive.

For those of you not familiar with Southern California - not everything looks like Hollywood. This is what the road looks like a bit inland.

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Let's look over to the side

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Houses and some trees, nothing tall, nothing fancy. Better than this?

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Maybe. Bare hills for miles and miles.

And this is a pretty typical landscape too.

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For some reason, there was an extraordinary amount of trucks carrying huge rolls of paper on the road.

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I wonder what they are using it for. My first thought was that it was for Newspapers - but it is brown paper, not white.

On the way, we stopped a couple of times to stretch out legs. In Barstow, it was 55 degrees and very windy. At this rest stop it was very windy too. See how our hair gets blown all over the place :)

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This place had the honor to have the tallest thermometer in the world - the locals swear it is true.

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As you can see, it is 79 here, but the wind still made it quite unpleasant.

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The road kept stretching out straight forever. One great feature about this car is that the seats have a heater build in. when my back started to hurt, I turned on the heater and it was like a huge hot water bottle! Nice and warm and relaxing.

By now, the side of the road had changed to cacti.

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Look what we passed here!

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Finally, we got to the Nevada State line!!! Yay!!

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And look who we all found at the Hotel, all ready for some picture taking. How great was that!!!

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From left to right: Shellie @everlove, I.J. Maha @steemcafe, Quinn Eaker @quinneaker, Richard Crill @richardcrill, Lindsay Lambz @lindseylambz, Daniel Fishman @hypnopreneur

Getting her camera ready to take pictures: Sara Miller @saramiller

We already spend a fun evening together and met many more of the steemit creator conference attendees. they are here from all over the US. There is still time to join the fun!!! Hop on a plan and come on over to Vegas!!!

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