Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Day 55 - The Mojave Desert

We left 29 palms and the Joshua Tree NP early to cross the Mojave Desert on our way to Las Vegas, NV. We drove straight through the desert for 4 hours. It was not that hot and the desert was green for a lot of the way since a hurricane 2 weeks earlier dropped 5 to 8 inches of rain on it. There were several different types of terrain. We went over mountains, through washes, through basins and salt flats, past desert sands and drove on a portion of the old Route 66.

Long and straight road through the desert

Black mountains in the desert

Miles and miles of barren desert

A long train crossing the desert floor

Evidence of volcanoes

Multicolored mountains

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