I think I’ve just reached the end of my pre-blogging collection, and now I’m simply left with a bunch of pictures and a few notes from each day. It’s sorta fun to be more and more brief for the sake of posting more regularly. Let’s see if I can recall why I made these notes:
barstow koa
wake early
dig site
-legacy of guy
calico ghost town
-train, ice cream, mine cave, why is it there?
driving
koa swimming
hot
star trail shot
Stayed in Barstow, it was hot… somewhere around 95+ if I recall correctly. They said it was cool for that time of the year. I woke up early and had the chance to do some chores (laundry) and even take a pretty sunrise style photo. The desert is a nicer place in the early morning when things have had a chance to cool off and the sun hasn’t heated things up at all. We got moving and went to see a cool archeological dig site – the guy there had been working the site for some crazy number of years… I think it was in the neighborhood of 60, but that just seems intense, so maybe it was just 40. Even still, I don’t know anyone who has worked in one place for so long anywhere. Yikes. Afterwards, and more in the heat of the day we checked out Calico, a ghost town somewhere near Barstow. I guess in it’s hay-day it had something like 3000 people and so a few buildings were still around. Most of it had been rebuilt and redone to encourage tourists, and it sure seemed like a popular spot considering the 102+ temperature (in the shade, mind you). Very touristy, but still interesting to look at the area and wonder what it might have been like. Oh, and ice-cream is really tasty when you’re hot.
Click on the photos for more detailed descriptions:
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- Hiding from the sun
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- night photography
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- laundry on the road
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- seriously?
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- signage
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- dig site
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- don’t touch
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- no pictures
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- the tanker
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- designing
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- more pounding
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- arts and crafts
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- temperature
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- antique
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- sewing machine
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- ghost town
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- finished product
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- modeling
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- in the tunnel
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- tunnel walking
Cody & Heather's Wedding!! 