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Old 03-18-2012, 12:32 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Sure, and it is a great bicycle ride to PSR, a German ride back to Darwin, but you cannot call PSR a destination for services and at 24 miles and 2400 ft elevation difference. There is no real benefit in going to PSR aside from a beer and a burger.
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Old 03-18-2012, 01:16 PM
 
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There is a motel and also a campground, which are reasonably priced should one wish to have a base from which to explore DV and other scenic areas nearby. Fortunately, I'm just 160 miles away, which allows me to make day trips.
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Old 03-18-2012, 01:24 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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A person living in Darwin is not likely to drive to PSR for gas (ya priced it?) or supplies, when an easy straight shot to Lone Pine is available. The poster is interested, apparently in living at Darwin, not visiting as a tourist.

And as I posted earlier, the road to PSR, the dirt road, is a world class bike ride, but, likely not something the op is interested in either.

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Old 03-18-2012, 03:18 PM
 
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The OP may consider the information that he has gleaned from the web, and decide whether or not to move to Darwin. Or, he may visit Darwin and make his decision then. OTOH, if he needs to appraise the area and spend some time with the locals, staying at the motel in PS would be a convenient place to stay, nothing less, nothing more. Who knows, he may even decide to try a world-class bike trail one day - downhill, of course.
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Old 03-18-2012, 03:32 PM
 
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Who goes to the desert and stays in a motel? Not the average Darwin resident. More likely the Minietta, or the Briggs.
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Old 03-18-2012, 04:06 PM
 
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Who goes to the desert and stays in a motel? Not the average Darwin resident. More likely the Minietta, or the Briggs.
Ok, you got me. Guilty as charged. Stayed at a motel in Tombstone, AZ twice, plus about two dozen times in Lost Wages. Oh, you were thinking more along the lines of more outlying areas? How about vacationers and travelers? At last count there were at least seven hotels and motels in Death Valley National Park. At this point, even the OP may have lost interest.
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Old 03-19-2012, 01:42 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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At last count there were at least seven hotels and motels in Death Valley National Park

Furnace Creek Ranch
Furnace Creek Inn
Stovepipe Wells.

That is it, not sure where your number came from. Even sticking PSR, which isn't in the park on your list, there would only be 4.

Anyone interested in Darwin is more likely to be

A. completely out to lunch
B. A desert camper, not a moteler. A place like this is much more to their liking, one of our "homes" in the desert;

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Old 09-24-2012, 12:13 AM
 
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Default Darwin's lack of broadband

According to an article in the 12 March Los Angeles Times, citizens of Darwin only have dial-up for their computers. This is an outrage; the same day I read the article, I heard an NPR interview with David Cay Johnston, author of The Fine Print, who tells us that cable and phone companies promised that the Information Highway would provide broadband to every American citizen--no matter how remote his location. In fact, the fees charged on phone & cable bills have ALREADY paid for this, but the companies have weasled out of it, and only provided broadband internet to a portion of the country. That's why the subtitle to Johnston's book is
How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind. Please go to [url=http://www.npr.org/2012/09/20/161477162/a-close-look-at-your-bills-fine-print]A Close Look At Your Bills' 'Fine Print' : NPR[/url] to learn more. Darwin should by all rights be able to get broadband internet, and should press the relevant companies more intensely to have it.
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