It’s Friday and the only reason I know is…
An older motel in Needles, but clean and neat and I can park in front of my room.
The WiFi was great here
The gas prices Not so Much because they were so MUCH!
It was ominous looking in my direction of travel
But it looked nice the other way.
I didn’t take that turn, I had plans
Just for a moment I thought I actually saw the POG
My plans took me through the Mojave Preserve
It was okay, but I may never travel this route again
As rocky as this place is, my mind kept telling me to be thankful I wasn’t the one that dug the holes for those telephone poles!
Looks the the govt is keeping an eye on you even out here.
Originally the poles were supposed to go here.
Everything was dry even though it was raining
I liked this old train station. Now a museum but closed due to covid.
No longer a boom town so it is closed
Of course train stations need train tracks
Train tracks need trains
It’s also nice if they have a safe place to pass each other.
Baker, CA has the worlds tallest thermometer. I’m pretty sure it was one degree off, but I didn’t make a big deal of even tell them.
Rocky wanted to stop here and have some zucchini fries. The fries sucked!
Thought about looking for some diet Vernors
Stopped here for lunch. Ordered the steak burrito. I was expecting only steak in that thing but they slipped in a whole bunch of stuff that wasn’t on my diet. What could I do?
At least they had covered parking
About the closest thing to fine dining in CA is tailgating off the back of your bike
This large dry lake bed is just north of Baker on hwy 127
The next few pics are just the general landscape and need no captions
Yes, that salt
Just south of Shoshone is Tecopa Hot Spring
In the old westerns they would show a few skeletons around lakes like this and say they were alkali
They just taste like salt water to me
Amargosa has seen better days
I would have love this back when I used to maintain a country road I lived on in Oregon
Covid just might be the nail in the coffin
Seems everything has been taken down to bare bones
I never did figure out what he is here for
My suggestion is to stay outside of the fence
The sign on the road said Christ of the desert. I was expecting something like Christ of the Ozarks but different. It was just the name of this little Catholic church
I guess when they are out of date they are just too expensive to maintain so they park them
YES!
Guess who was here first
As long as the guy in the middle is wearing a mask there should be no problems
The whole crew and all of the bikesDale, Ed, Matt, Ken, Mikeand me taking the picture.