Thursday, November 5, 2015

Day 36: Trona Pinnacles to Mojave Preserve, CA



Day 36:
November 1, 2015: Trona Pinnacles to Mojave Preserve, CA
Our annoying neighbor left; we left as we had already planned.
Today was shopping day: restock the veggies, meat in Ridgecrest.  We saw that Albertson’s had 5 lb. bags of carrots (labeled HORSE carrots) for $6.99 so we were bummed that we hadn’t shopped there before visiting the Wild Horse facility.  There probably would have been enough in the bag to give each horse ½ a carrot (maybe) although it would have been really hard to give each one a piece as they tended to try and hog them.
Drive to Mojave Preserve to spend a some time there.  I think we travelled something like 200 miles or so today…haven’t done that in a long time.  We are staying for two nights here.  
We had read about a spot that we wanted to procure to camp in (for free, of course). Mojave Preserve has free camping in a couple of areas and they also have regular campgrounds. 






The spot we wanted was occupied so we picked something down the road.  We were eating dinner when I saw the car go by that was occupying that site.  I told David go check it out even though he said there is no way they had packed up so quickly when they were so well ensconced in the spot.  He did and I saw him trotting back (he doesn’t trot normally) so I knew it was ours if we got there quick. 





Kelso Dunes in Mojave Preserve
 We moved quickly and systematically to unset up camp in a matter of minutes; we don’t have an elaborate set up with lots of stuff to put away. I stowed anything that would fly, we picked up the leveling blocks, put away the solar panels and off we went.  So we are happy that we got the only treed site to block the sun…86 degrees today but cool at night 50’s or high 40’s.  Good score!




Our site overlooking the dunes

The End

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