END OF THE WORLD - 10 Mi
TRONA - 15 Mi
-a legendary highway signpost near Trona, California

Trona made the front page of the Times this morning. I've never been there (good thing, too, judging from the article) but I won't forget it soon. Many years ago the Times used to run a contest based on California place names. You could win lebenty-leben gillion dollars, more or less. I did very well one year but near the end it was "Trona" that flummoxed me.

You can read all about Trona here. If they ever run the contest again, you'll be a step ahead of everyone else. "You've heard of 'the middle of nowhere'? Well, this is the middle of that."