See: Dusty's Campground - Part I
I: Visiting the land
The author of Part 1 in this short series is an implicit liar for suggesting the land was purchased before it was visited. This is unequivocally untrue and unintentionally endorsing an unacceptable, no-go notion. As his successor, I shall amend the mistakes of my forebear.
A few weeks before completing the purchase of the land, my friend and I flew out to Reno and drove three hours to visit the plot. What we found was one of the most beautiful pieces of relatively untouched[1] beauty we had ever seen.
Our land overlooks Blue Mountain, the most beautiful mountain I've ever seen, earning such Google Maps reviews as "It kind of looks blue in the morning" (★★★★★) and "Pretty great, but not blue. Whoever named this must have been colorblind." (★★★★★)
And of course, no one can be satisfied with waterfront property if they never take a dive, so we purchased some boots from the nearest Walmart and trudged across the Humboldt River. While it may look like the Humboldt River is drying up, I assure you there was at least an inch of flowing water, perhaps even as deep as 3 inches in some places.
We spent the night on the land in our rental car next to these lovely decorations left by our soon-to-be neighbors.
II: Visiting the land, again
A month later (September 2025) we were owners of the land but is land really yours if you're not on it?[2] By rhetorical negative implication, the land was not ours again until March 2026. Moreover everybody knows a forty-acre plot of land is not yours until:
- You have named it.
- You have a permanent resident living there.
- You have built a sign at the entrance of your land which states the name for all to see.
The name and the resident actually went hand in hand this time around. Or rather, hoof-in-hoof – wait hold on... [googling buffalo feet] okay yeah hoof-in-hoof is correct, or trotter-in-trotter if you're planning on eating them.
[1] Per my travels, it's almost impossible to find a place that's completely untouched. Humans are a plague or something idk. ↩
[2] Aside from the horrifying concept of adverse possession, yes. ↩