I visited the abandoned hyperloop site after defcon this year. It looked like they just left work one day and never came back. There was no security and the perimeter fence was open.

The site foreman for the powerplant next door didn't recognize my truck and said hi. Being isolated in the desert has gotta be a hard job.

Barrel cacti live a really long time. I watched one get squished with a logging forklift once and had no idea that it'd probably been there for 100+ years minding its own business.

Sometimes I miss the desert cowboy years.