If you trust Google Maps’ bird’s eye view of the route from Mariposa to Las Vegas, you’d think I spent 7 hours slowly turning left.

But once I was on the road, and the navigation was just a series of “126 miles until the next direction”, it really felt like one straight line. Absolutely nothing on the left, and an equal amount of nothing on the right.

I took pictures throughout the day, convinced that I had seen this particular stretch of nothingness earlier in the drive. Enabling Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Keep Assist meant that I really was just sitting there supervising my car in case it made a mistake. This only helped to reinforce the feeling that I was stuck in an infinite loop. The only indication of the forward passage of time was my increasing fatigue, and my depleting gas tank. I figured I’d review the pictures later, if I ever made it to Vegas.

Well, I’m reviewing them now, and I’ll be the first to admit that I was wrong; there was plenty of variety in the nothingness to look at and appreciate.

  • Windows XP Nothingness
  • Asymmetric Nothingness
  • Nothingness Sampler
  • Clean Energy Nothingness
  • Red Dead Redemption Nothingness
  • True Nothingness
  • Is this different from the last one?
  • Nothingness with lights on
  • Holy shit it’s Vegas!