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Well after dark, I find a nice campsite along a road near Mail Spring, Mojave National Preserve, and set up for a couple of days

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4902-dark.jpg The sun goes down behind me with a nice belt-of-Venus over Ivanpah Valley below as I continue riding up Ivanpah RoadThumbnailsI set up the tent and lay down, too tired to boil water for an instant meal tonight (I just eat a lot of roasted almonds)The sun goes down behind me with a nice belt-of-Venus over Ivanpah Valley below as I continue riding up Ivanpah RoadThumbnailsI set up the tent and lay down, too tired to boil water for an instant meal tonight (I just eat a lot of roasted almonds)The sun goes down behind me with a nice belt-of-Venus over Ivanpah Valley below as I continue riding up Ivanpah RoadThumbnailsI set up the tent and lay down, too tired to boil water for an instant meal tonight (I just eat a lot of roasted almonds)The sun goes down behind me with a nice belt-of-Venus over Ivanpah Valley below as I continue riding up Ivanpah RoadThumbnailsI set up the tent and lay down, too tired to boil water for an instant meal tonight (I just eat a lot of roasted almonds)The sun goes down behind me with a nice belt-of-Venus over Ivanpah Valley below as I continue riding up Ivanpah RoadThumbnailsI set up the tent and lay down, too tired to boil water for an instant meal tonight (I just eat a lot of roasted almonds)The sun goes down behind me with a nice belt-of-Venus over Ivanpah Valley below as I continue riding up Ivanpah RoadThumbnailsI set up the tent and lay down, too tired to boil water for an instant meal tonight (I just eat a lot of roasted almonds)

I was hoping to make it further up this road, but too exhausted to go any further. Just happy to be here in the land of junipers and Joshua trees, hot here, but high enough to not be in the hotter area that I passed through below earlier today.