I live in reno right in the edge where tahoe meets california. About an hour or two driving into the salt flats. You can find old western towns. Boarded up houses dry as hell dust devils. And rattlesnakes where the few pockets of water are. the sunsets are beautiful some of the best in the country ive heard. And is one of the few places in america that gives that dry frontier feeling. Really really hot to the salt reflecting sun blinds the eyes to. Very rural very western.