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Three miles up the hill of Nipton Road, I reach the "Welcome to Nevada" sign that makes a perfect tourist photo

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00368-welcome-to-nevada-800px.jpg I start the climb up the hill away from Nipton toward the Nevada borderThumbnailsThe views back down to Nipton and across Ivanpah Valley from the Nevada State line are superbI start the climb up the hill away from Nipton toward the Nevada borderThumbnailsThe views back down to Nipton and across Ivanpah Valley from the Nevada State line are superbI start the climb up the hill away from Nipton toward the Nevada borderThumbnailsThe views back down to Nipton and across Ivanpah Valley from the Nevada State line are superbI start the climb up the hill away from Nipton toward the Nevada borderThumbnailsThe views back down to Nipton and across Ivanpah Valley from the Nevada State line are superbI start the climb up the hill away from Nipton toward the Nevada borderThumbnailsThe views back down to Nipton and across Ivanpah Valley from the Nevada State line are superb

Hopefully, the all the bullet holes in the Nevada welcome sign are not a message from the Nevada Commission on Tourism. I'll probably only be in Nevada for half an hour or so.