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.
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!
The End
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| Kelso Dunes in Mojave Preserve |
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| Our site overlooking the dunes |
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