Vegas to Reno is August 22/23, 650 miles takes a long time for some! We pitted for a friend last year, don't know if he's racing this year. The actual start of the race is a few miles south of 95 parallel to 160. It really ends in Dayton, not Reno. Can't get close anymore I guess.
Fallon to me is like my home town was before it became a suburb of LA, mostly agriculture and a miltary base. My parents moved there from the valley before it was even a city, now the population is 100,000+. Six golf courses and counting, my mom still lives there. IMHO Parumph is somewhat becoming the same, a suburb of Vegas on the southern end anyway. There is still plenty of open space in the other direction though, same with Fallon. We go out to Middlegate quite a bit. I still have friends whose directions to their homes start with 'turn off the paved road...'