dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

39/45
Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2009, Spring: Mojave National Preserve / Day 2: Kelso Depot and Cornfield Spring Road, Mojave National Preserve /

Sunset finally approaches like I knew it eventually would; I've been imagining its arrival from inside my tent for a while now

ThumbnailsPreviousNext
Photo sizes slideshow
01703-me-sunset.jpg Back at the tent, I decide to rest silently for a while and enjoy the mind-and-body debilitating drug that is the heatThumbnailsLike the Providence Mountains behind me, I stretch, and I stretch, upward and outward, the cool 90-degree air enveloping us allBack at the tent, I decide to rest silently for a while and enjoy the mind-and-body debilitating drug that is the heatThumbnailsLike the Providence Mountains behind me, I stretch, and I stretch, upward and outward, the cool 90-degree air enveloping us allBack at the tent, I decide to rest silently for a while and enjoy the mind-and-body debilitating drug that is the heatThumbnailsLike the Providence Mountains behind me, I stretch, and I stretch, upward and outward, the cool 90-degree air enveloping us allBack at the tent, I decide to rest silently for a while and enjoy the mind-and-body debilitating drug that is the heatThumbnailsLike the Providence Mountains behind me, I stretch, and I stretch, upward and outward, the cool 90-degree air enveloping us allBack at the tent, I decide to rest silently for a while and enjoy the mind-and-body debilitating drug that is the heatThumbnailsLike the Providence Mountains behind me, I stretch, and I stretch, upward and outward, the cool 90-degree air enveloping us all

It's still 93 degrees, and hotter than that in the tent. With the dimming of the hot sun blows a light breeze, so it's time to step outside and get as much less-hot air on my skin as possible. I stand and stretch. And stretch.