>I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I used to live in Hesperia. I'm glad you escaped, too. If s

>I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I used to live in Hesperia. I'm glad you escaped, too. If some sub-culture doesn't do you in, the contaminated well water will. (a literal skin-head nazi race riot broke out in my High School during my time there -- I didn't even realize that h.s. riots existed until I found myself in the middle of one -- I felt I needed to qualify the sub-culture comment before it was taken offensively.) With that said : You're absolutely right that the atmosphere/ambience of the High Desert is conducive to making Coast to Coast that much more believable -- and it simultaneously answers why no aliens have stuck around; i'd have turned around too if I landed somewhere in the middle of the Mojave.