- Oh look, another balloon!
- Oh, a stray balloon on the side of the road leading down from Sleeping Beauty!
- The star of most every desert-wilderness trip: the stray balloon
- In this Castle Peaks wash, I encounter my first stray balloon of the day, trapped in a desert sage bush
- Six minutes after my first balloon discovery, I stumble across a second one in the same Castle Peaks wash
- As I approach Indian Spring, I notice a balloon fragment tangled in a catclaw bush
- Castle Peaks Road ends after 30 minutes; I start riding the Barnwell-Searchlight railway grade and find this stray balloon
- On this saddle in the Providence Mountains, I find the remains of a balloon
- I'm almost at Summit Spring, but I notice a couple of stray balloons nearby; I take a short detour to look at them close-up
- As I hike up the canyon into the Cady Mountains, I come across a balloon stuck in the brush
- Ah ha! A special desert flower that's occasionally found even in the most remote Mojave Desert locales: an old balloon
- Oh, another stray balloon to collect for disposal!
- Until now, I hadn't encountered a stray balloon yet today
- Ah ha, I spot another stray balloon as I hike in the wash toward the south end of Broadwell Mesa
- Already, I've encountered a second stray balloon that reached its death in a wilderness area
- Here I am out in the middle of nowhere, and I find an old balloon stuck on a creosote bush
- A happy-Mother's-Day balloon rests deflated near the road