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Trip across the Mojave Desert Preserve
Every year we try to make a couple trips across the Mojave Preserve before it gets to hot or too cold. This time we staged out of Ivanpah and went south to Cima then across to Baker. We always try to find as many old mines, and settlements as possible. Some of the old mines you can spend hours at exploring. We saw a barn owl in a well, a tortoise in the road, and a ton of quail. It's so weird to be cruising along a timy sandy road in the middle of nowhere and then come across a little mini oasis. This time of year the flowers are blooming and the desert is quite green. It's obvious that the water table is quite a bit higher than you would think. On our way back I got a rear flat. We were only about 40 miles from the truck and we only had 2 air canisters so I was worried that if we tried to change it that we would'nt have enough air to seat the bead. So we put a little air in it and hauled ass. About 10 miles from the truck it got wobbly and I tried to just grit it along. But eventually the tube came shooting out and it wouldn't go no more! Now I see how nice a bead lock would be! But these dual sports don't come with them due to the balancing at freeway speeds. Anyways we had a blast.
