Nevada

How was Nevada?

Nevada, up in Farmington.

California and Nevada border on each other.

Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky. Oh yeah.

Then Dylan disappears into the Nevada Desert.

It's right on the eastern border of Nevada.

The Hannibal Lecter Central School, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Nevada over the last five years or so.

We met in the Nevada desert 18 months ago.

You can pick it up in Nevada Arizona, New Mexico.

This is a land yacht racing across the desert in Nevada.

Let's get some coffee and get the fuck out of Nevada...

And I grew up in this little farming town in northern Nevada.

Not just flower beds, not just cartoons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

You think we could get the state of Nevada to outlaw gambling?

And Nevada power bills a Mike Traceur living just outside of Las vegas.

It was made clear you were never again welcome in any nevada gaming establishment.

In fact, it was the highest operating mine in Nevada, and it ran year round.

( tranquil theme playing ) Here in Southern Nevada, man is changing the bleak face of nature.

I said to him, Probably right here Elko, Nevada. Our nation's high at 79 today.

And when I went to college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas when I was 18,

We actually have California and Nevada covered, and we've got the Eastern seaboard from Boston to D.C. covered.

led us to Eastern Nevada, to America's newest and oldest national park, which is called Great Basin National Park.

I grew up out west in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, like you see here, in the Red Rock Canyon.

He owns 14 Los Pollos restaurants in between here and Nevada. He could be at any one of them.

But outside, I've got reports of the blue stuff making a scene here in Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.

Now, two weeks ago, that dream took a step forward, when the state of Nevada granted Google's self driving car the very first license for an autonomous vehicle, clearly establishing that it's legal for them to test it on the roads in Nevada.

This is what one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq War while never leaving Nevada.

Moving across to the West coast, you see San Francisco and Los Angeles big low traffic zones across Nevada and Arizona.

And I assembled this in my garage, and it now lives in the physics department of the University of Nevada, Reno.

So we looked all over the U.S. We found them in New York, we found them in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida.

Part of a custom batch given to the top 10 finalists in the Annual American Cowboy Shootist competition in Reno, Nevada.

Things not that different than what I'm describing happened in places like Modesto and Stockton, California, and parts of Miami and Nevada and Arizona.

Now, of all the peoples that I've ever been with, the most extraordinary are the Kogi of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.

There, about 45 scientists from the University of Wisconsin, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and others have been working to answer a central question about global warming.

Our cars have been able to drive hundreds of thousands of miles all across California and some of Nevada, in downtown areas like San Francisco, on busy highways.

Lincoln Meadow's a three and a half hour drive east of San Francisco in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at about 2,000 meters altitude, and I've been recording there for many years.

This was a government sponsored robot race in which autonomous robots were asked to drive through the Mojave desert from California to Nevada along 141 miles of really punishing desert terrain.

Because of that, because of that, Mexico cedes over all this area, so California, and all of the rest of, you know, Nevada, Arizona, and with the part of New Mexico that didn't come along with the United States, didn't already have.

And it is no more ambitious and no more crazy for us to consider doing that today, than it was for our ancestors to consider throwing railroads across the Sierra Nevada and building huge reservoirs and waterworks to bring water and power to California.