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What’s New in Nevada
“Revel” in travel’s latest trend
According to Virtuoso, travellers are ringing in the new year with Revelry Travel – travelling for joy. Expedia agrees, calling it JOMO Travel. Everyone has experienced FOMO, the fear of missing out, but it’s time to embrace JOMO, the joy of missing out. This means leaving the hustle and bustle of everyday life behind and hitting the open road, escaping into nature or staying in a remote locale. Welcome to rural Nevada. Billed as the Road Trip Capital of the USA, Nevada offers 10 themed routes to take visitors across the state, such as The Loneliest Road in America. In the 1980s, Life magazine dubbed this stretch of U.S. Route 50 as having no points of interest. Road trippers willing to leave their Wi-Fi behind in search of stunning landscapes, state parks, ghost towns and sagebrush saloons, can be confident they will be anything but lonely, and in fact, may just find joy.
Sipping through sagebrush saloons
There are few better places to drink in Nevada’s history than its historic watering holes or “Sagebrush Saloons,” as the state calls them. To guide road trippers across the state, the Sagebrush Saloon Passport highlights nearly 30 iconic options. Free to download, the passport allows the user (and a designated driver) to digitally check in at each location and rack up points toward exclusive swag. At each stop, visitors will discover the history of both the saloon and the surrounding community. Stops include Nevada’s oldest drinking parlour, the Genoa Bar & Saloon in the Carson Valley, which is also the oldest settlement in the state; Eureka Owl Club, a full-service bar along Highway 50, one of the most remote and haunted highways in the country; and the legendary Odeon Saloon in Dayton, which has drawn the likes of Wild West cowboys, Mark Twain and Marilyn Monroe.
