Middle of F _ _ _ ing Nowhere

On our 2016 cross-country trip I wrote a post (http://paulpaulbiketrip.blogspot.com/2016/08/miles-from-nowhere.html) using the initials M.F.N. numerous times to drive home the point how we were a long ways from civilization.  I never found out how many people figured out my play on words, but if you did, well count yourself in the upper half of the populace in terms of observatory skills and intelligence.  Well, northeastern Montana doesn't hold a candle to central Nevada.  When we came upon the following sign, I should have realized that there wasn't a lot of civilization around.  This was east of Tonopah, and not far from Area-51 and the Nevada test site.  As we crested the first summit, we could see the road dropping down into the valley, going straight as an arrow across the plains, and then rising up on the opposite side, fifteen miles away.
It probably took us an hour to get across the valley and up the far summit.  After lunch we ground our way up the second climb of the day and at the top looked back.  Again, it was unbelievable how long and straight they could make a road!

The gigantic RV kind of puts it into perspective.

In any event, the scenery sure is beautiful.  Nevada is interesting in that it seems like a series of mountain ridges that poke up out of an almost-flat desert.  Many of the features appear to be  volcanic in origin and if I didn't know better, I'd think I was in the Owyhee desert of Malheur County Oregon.  So now we are camped at a rest area about a third of the way from Tonopah to Ely and it is absolutely dead quiet.  The stars look like you could reach out and touch them and we will probably sleep like rocks tonight.  This is about as close to nowhere as you can get!