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(Truest thanks, Nick and apologies...)

I am Stephen McGreevy and live in nearby Keeler, California.  Darwin is my favorite town to visit all of my good friends there (all highly intelligent folks!) and have very enjoyable social and musical gatherings. The setting of the town is awesome, being nestled in the Lucky Jim Wash with the lovely Maturango Mountain looming to the south and lovely granite-boulder hills to the west and north. Darwin is definitely NOT a "highway town" like just about all of the other Inyo County towns are, and as such has a very remote feeling that I truly love!

The setting of the town is awesome, being nestled in the Lucky Jim Wash with the lovely Maturango Mountain looming to the south and lovely granite-boulder hills to the west and north.  Darwin is definitely NOT a "highway town" like just about all of the other Inyo County towns are, and as such has a very remote feeling that I truly love!

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Yes indeed there are great challenges in living so remotely, besides common misperceptions of rural residents we have to deal with way out here: (ya just can't press your "On-Star" button if you have a vehicular breakdown and expect Big Daddy to come to your rescue - ya just hafta fix it yourself or walk miles and miles, as I once had to do all night, but in lovely moonlight and stars, so it was rather a cool experience, too)!

For myself, alongside desert challenges comes a sort of "mental natural-high" that soars with the vastness of the surrounding desert landscape. I could not live anywhere else in the USA save for rural-Hawaii, being that I avoid most US cities like the plague now (unsafe), and vastly prefer locales without any visible man-made lights (perfect for dark-sky astronomy and my own various radio/ham experiments and research). - N6NKS -