The route was direct as well as desolate for our create to Joshua Tree yesterday. It was a pretty proficient route alongside niggling traffic.
We enjoyed the ruggedness of the landscape,
as well as the many colors nosotros saw inwards the layers of mountains.
As nosotros approached Amboy, California, nosotros saw the Amboy Crater off to the side.
Our friend The Google tells us that Amboy Crater is an extinct cinder cone volcano that rises higher upward a 70-square-kilometer (27 sq mi) lava plain inwards the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument. It is estimated to last 79,000 years one-time as well as was formed during the Pleistocene geological period. The interior has a lava lake. Lava flows equally one-time equally Amboy Crater itself blanket the surrounding area. The most recent eruption was some 10,000 years ago.
Amboy Crater was used equally a place inwards the 1959 film Journey to the Center of the Earth. Fires were laid within the crater to simulate a volcanic eruption. Amboy Crater was besides featured inwards the Viceland network present Abandoned. It is designated a National Natural Landmark past times the Bureau of Land Management.
Across the route from the crater, at that topographic point were hundreds...maybe thousands...of these pyramid-shaped mounds of dirt.
And as well as thus I inquired of my friend The Google i time once again to larn that these are purpose of 2 large, active tabular array salt mines that arrive at much of the sodium as well as sodium chloride used inwards high schoolhouse chemical scientific discipline classes. Indeed, this dry out lake bed was caked alongside what appears to last sodium chloride, aka salt.
Have I said lately how much I ❤ the internet?
In some other l miles or so, nosotros passed through the town of 29 Palms as well as the N entrance to Joshua Tree National Park.
During our terminal catch to Joshua Tree, nosotros paid for 3 nights within the national park. Only, the weather condition was as well as thus mutual coldness as well as windy, nosotros were blowing through our propane at an alarming rate. We ended upward cutting our remain curt past times i night.
This fourth dimension around, we're trying an RV common I read close online inwards the town of Joshua Tree, close the westward entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. As it turns out, the house is nearly abandoned, as well as it's a proficient launch pad for our visit. Once nosotros were laid up, the kitties settled inwards for some hard-core napping.
Later, Smitty spent some fourth dimension on the catio...
spell Sadie snuggled upward beside me for some slow-stitching time.
It's fourth dimension to switch dorsum to the Snowflake project. This volition last the minute of 12 snowflakes.
These are worked mainly alongside i strand of DMC floss; however, I've taken to using 3 strands when I'm doing satin stitch. Maybe that's cheating, but I acquire ameliorate coverage, as well as I similar the niggling fleck of "poof" it gives the satin-stitched sections. This i besides uses a metallic element floss I've non tried before. This is Diamant from DMC. It comes inwards a dozen-plus colors.
It's a three-strand floss, as well as similar every metallic element floss I've tried, it wants to untwist, which makes it a bugger for threading a needle. Nevertheless, I similar how it feels as well as how it industrial plant i time I've got it threaded. I tried using only i strand, but it barely showed on my piece, as well as and thus I'm using all 3 strands.
Also, it seemed similar a proficient solar daytime for baking. I made Caramel Bread Puddings for Two. I've made this before. It's piece of cake as well as and thus tasty. The recipe volition say yous to brand these inwards a cup, but I similar using the 1-cup ramekins.
Finally, I constitute this stray painting on my band of the sunset our terminal nighttime inwards Laughlin, Nevada. So pretty.
And that's all I direct maintain for yous today. We'll last doing some hiking inwards the national common today. Mainly, we're only killing fourth dimension until nosotros tin banking concern fit into a infinite inwards Hemet on Sunday. We'll last spending 2 weeks there, alongside a catch to the Road to California quilt present adjacent Thursday. I can't wait.