Monday, March 21, 2016

Moving back to Catalina Spa RV Resort, Desert Hot Springs

Sonny wanted to wax our rig so on Sunday, he did the upper area and I did what I could reach below.  Maybe we'll go faster through the desert, now? It was our last night in Bullhead so we did laundry and visited with our lot mates. They were full time RVers and had a wealth of information on campgrounds for us to visit on our way home at the end of the month.

We got on the road Tuesday morning by 9:30 AM  following 95 S to I-40 W, to sections of old Rt 66, south to 62 north of Joshua Tree National Park and down into Desert Hot Springs.  We had thought we would travel to Pahrump near Death Valley for a week but the weather was predicted to be cooler so we headed South and booked a week back in Desert Hot Springs. We took an exit off I-40 that turned out to be a closed road. Surprise! No notice till we were committed on the overpass and then it was too late. Sonny did expertly backed up and turned us around to get back on I-40. Thank goodness we had enough room to do it.  In Wonder Valley, there was a mound of gravel along the roadway for more than 5 miles. I began to notice that there were rocks spelling out names and verses along the gravel banks.

We arrived back at Catalina Spa and got a spot along the wall with mountain, sunrise and sunset views.  Back to 8 am line dancing classes!

Wax cleaning


There are many yellow desert flowers.

As we got up to 1000' in California, we 
began to see Joshua trees.

This route took us through miles of desert past
 isolated homes in various states of existence. 

Another palm tree micro wave tower.

In the middle of nowhere, CA, there was
 the Palms Restaurant.  

One of many abandoned buildings,
usually without doors or windows.

Geodesic dome home.

Way out in the desert, we saw piles of sand
and deep troughs of water.  We guessed this
 is how chloride is mined.
Amboy Crater is an extinct cinder cone

type of volcano that rises above a 70 square mile lava field in Southern California near the town of Amboy.
It estimated to be 79,000 years old. The crater is one of 
the few along Rt 66 so generations of travelers can say
they had climbed a volcano.

Abandoned motel along 66.

Roadway gravel project


Some kind of mining in the distance.

Former Rt 66 rest stop.

Desert views and the gravel bank.


Old gas station?

The road was pretty straight for miles and miles.


A Jeep from Washington similar to Cindy's!
Back at Catalina Spa for happy hour.

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