Similar, but I parked my alt at the Bootlegger Outpost. There's an innkeeper tucked under one of the tents, though it's not some place www.euwowgold.fr you'd expect an inn. Advantage to this spot was twofold -- one, directly adjacent to one of the hives, so no travel time once the sandstorm happens. And two, since it's an open-sided tent it was extremely easy to see if there was a sandstorm happening.
Edit -- forgot the skill talk.
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