dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

16/22
Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2000: Mojave National Preserve Bicycle Camping Trip #2 / Day 8: Hole-in-the-Wall Campground, Mojave National Preserve, to Goffs via Essex Road and historic Route 66 /

On the other side of Route 66 from the Essex post office sits this old house, which appears empty

ThumbnailsPreviousNext
Photo sizes slideshow
008-essex-house-753px.jpg The Essex post office next to the abandoned café and gas stationThumbnailsFenner, California is mostly just this big gas station serving freeway traffic from Interstate 40The Essex post office next to the abandoned café and gas stationThumbnailsFenner, California is mostly just this big gas station serving freeway traffic from Interstate 40The Essex post office next to the abandoned café and gas stationThumbnailsFenner, California is mostly just this big gas station serving freeway traffic from Interstate 40The Essex post office next to the abandoned café and gas stationThumbnailsFenner, California is mostly just this big gas station serving freeway traffic from Interstate 40

The closest store is at Fenner, 6.5 miles northeast, where Route 66 crosses Interstate 40. I need to get some water, so I start riding up Route 66 in that direction.