There is a road that crosses the freeway in the middle of the desert with nothing around, and it says "Cima".

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to know where Cima was, and what it was. Now I am older I knew it was a tiny desert town with nothing there, but I still wanted to go.

One day I was driving from Las Vegas to LA along the 15 freeway and decided to take the road. It turned out to be a delightful desert drive; it goes through a Joshua tree forest which was soooo pretty and the road is one of those straight desert roads that seems romantic and is used in movies like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

I got to Cima, and sure enough, it was basically the junction of two roads. There was an old house that was half collapsed on one side of the road, and on the other there was an abandoned ranch. The corral had nothing in it except an old rusted out truck cab. There were three or four buildings to the ranch, one of which was an old wood freight car that had been taken off the wheels and set up as a building. Someone cut a door and some windows in it and made some sort of space. It was boarded up and dead, like the rest of the place.

Anyway, this was the dead railroad freight car turned building then abandoned, still with the Union Pacific railroad designation on it.