Watch out for ghouls and robots
Heh.
I avoided Searchlight the first time I passed it, didn't have any good anti-rad stuff yet.
When I finally got around to heading back there, I was lv29-30. Came over a hill, saw a Mr. Gutsy, tried to snipe him...... wow, didn't go so well. Got swarmed by half a dozen Hardened Mr. Gutsys and like 5 Hardened Sentry Bots. Not enough pulse mines & grenades in the world to fight those guys in the open.