Back from the Calico Trip

[adventureduo]

Just got home from Calico, was a great trip, had a blast (minus the hangover on the way home) .. here are some pics.

Campsite with the new roof top tent. Worked great. Got out one time in the middle of the night to take a leak - sucked.

Popping open my first beer shortly after arriving with the new Cruiser opener.

 

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The Amboy Crater. About a 2 hour hike with a great view. 144 feet up.

Route 66 shot with the Crater in the background.

Town of Amboy, Population 10 (if that, more like 0 right now)

 

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Entering the Mojave National Preserve (home of the mojave trail)

Kelso Post Office

Oldschool Jail in front of the Kelso train station

Kelso Train Depot (restored to it's original glory in the middle of no where)

 

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Wheelin' @ explorin Mule canyon, Odessa and Doran canyons.

Playing hide the cruiser

Final section of Odessa canyon

Up on top of the bypass for lower doran canyon

Cool rock formation out in Mule canyon

Crowded Slash X cafe in the middle of BFE (New years eve, took 30 mins to get a beer)

Peggie Sues Old 50's diner we ate lunch at (stay away from the chicken fried steak -truck driver special, unless you have a iron stomach!)

Across the way from Peggie Sues is the Barstow Corps Logistics Base Yermo Annex

Celebrating New Year 2007 (not one of my finest moments lol) (oh yeah and that's not my beanie :flipoff:

 

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Calico Ghost Town - Hung over like a ********, hating life in this pic.

Only place we could find peace and quiet from our headaches

Fitting place since i felt like i was dead after all the New Years drinking the night before

Total mileage: 466 miles

 

[adventureduo]

Oh yeah, here's a shot of all the knuckleheads going to Vegas for New Years.. it was out of control. About a 40 mile back up. Morons taking there cars with DUBS out onto the desert roads getting lost. People standing next to their cars for miles.

Took us 2 hours to get back to camp and we were going the 'opposite' direction!

Interesting thing..
The last night we were camping the Ranger told us that some fellow 4 wheelers found a cave that was transformed into a shrine for Saddam Hussein. Pretty creepy... guess it had pictures, wine, rugs and a metal figure of some type. Needless to say they called the Sheriffs dept. I wanted to go see it but we had no time, plus im sure the Sheriffs had it all taped off by then.

 

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Here's the rest of the photos we took

http://community.webshots.com/album/556760836



Last 2 pics..

 

[SOAZ]

Great pics! Looks like a fun trip!:clapsmile

 

[kwikfile]

Calico is a very cool trip

That is a very cool photo share dude!

I had a very cool experience out there in the 70's on dirt bikes!

Anyway the shots of Amboy were neat. The Route 66 and creator is a classic.

Very cool - I am jealous.

Carl

 

[RedDog]

Hey man, thanks so much! It was almost as good as being there. I'm very grateful.

Was that a MacBook I saw in the field early? I just bought one a week ago and am looking to go away from home in my Jeep TJ with it. This whole area of remote online capability is a major objective of mine. I have much to learn. It's an enormous mystery to me.

Thanks again for the great shots.

Duane
Red Deer, Alberta

 

[adventureduo]

Yeah it's a ibook G4. We bring it out to play mp3's on every once a while.
Thanks for the kind words.:jumping: