We drove from Hemet, California, to Pahrump, Nevada, yesterday. As far equally distances go, it wasn't thus far...about 260 miles. Traffic was light, in addition to the weather condition was good. Still, somehow the twenty-four hours seemed real long. The scenery was slowly most of the way. We had to acquire through Barstow earlier anything of involvement showed itself. The expanse betwixt Hemet in addition to Barstow is brown, dry, in addition to uninteresting. We stopped inwards Barstow for lunch, mainly because at that spot was a Carl's, Jr., that advertised "RV Parking" on a real tall sign. And, hey...count us inwards when it comes to piece of cake parking.
Once nosotros headed out again, nosotros started seeing some dark-green on the hillsides, an indicator of some pelting recently.
We drove merely a footling ways downwards the route in addition to thus pulled off at a residuum halt where nosotros had our afternoon loving cup of espresso, 3 Dove chocolates each, in addition to thus Mike position downwards for a quick nap. While he was napping, I stitched the day's inchies. Yesterday's were simple, in addition to thus at that spot were ii to stitch. The outset was buttonhole stitch around the outer edge. The ticker was left blank. When everything is finished, a push volition go sewn here.
The minute has a footling satin-stitched heart, in addition to thus stalk stitch around the exterior edge.
When nosotros got dorsum on the route again, nosotros passed this familiar sign. Anyone who drives this route regularly volition recognize it. My friend Sue, who 1 time blogged at Zzyzx & Sue, named her truthful cat Zzyzx, in addition to thus I posted this picture to Facebook equally a special nudge to her.
Actually, I was quite surprised at the discover of responses my postal service got, including this link to the beginning of the yell of the road. It's interesting, in addition to I would encourage y'all to click in addition to read almost it.
Moving on downwards the road, nosotros were driving into this expanse merely southeast of Death Valley at a practiced fourth dimension of the twenty-four hours photography-wise. It was the "golden hour," in addition to the hillsides were lit upwards amongst sunshine in addition to shadowed inwards clouds. For such a desolate landscape, at that spot is a surprising amount of color.
As 1 approaches Death Valley from the south, 1 approaches the Dumont Dunes. This is a pop off-road vehicle area, in addition to nosotros sometimes reckon events occurring hither amongst lots of vehicles in addition to lines of porta-potties.
Moving on, the landscape got prettier in addition to prettier.
Off inwards the distance inwards the picture below is the isolated footling town of Tecopa, California. In 2010, it had a population of 150, in addition to it seems to be mainly equally a hot springs resort community.
But nosotros nevertheless had many miles to go.
The band of dark inwards the picture below gave us something to verbalize about. Was it bear witness of some ancient volcanic activity? Or was it a band of coal? This whole expanse was 1 time an ancient sea, in addition to thus coal is a possibility. We don't know.
As my woman rear used to state inwards our cross-country travels..."There goes the road."
The shadows on the mountains were due to some interesting cloud formations. Below, at that spot are several layers amongst the edges lit upwards yesteryear the sunshine.
Rounding the terminal curvature inwards the road, Pahrump, Nevada, came into view. I've given y'all a link to Pahrump's Wikipedia page. It also has an interesting history. If you've always wondered almost how it got its name, y'all tin larn to a greater extent than at that link. I'd encourage y'all to click, but having done that 1 time already, in addition to I don't desire to seem also bossy. Click or don't...it's upwards to you.
Shortly thereafter, nosotros crossed the Nevada province line. Those are the Spring Mountains inwards the background.
As nosotros got closer to Pahrump, nosotros noticed tumbleweeds piled yesteryear the side of the road. Piles appeared every 50 yards or so, in addition to they were weighted downwards yesteryear gravel.
With all those dead tumbleweeds, 1 would think these dark-green ones are juvenile tumbleweeds, merely waiting for their plough to grow upwards in addition to blow away.
When nosotros saw this sign, nosotros knew our long twenty-four hours of driving was almost over.
There was a pretty sunset in conclusion night, but I couldn't actually capture it because I was hemmed inwards yesteryear RVs in addition to structures all around. If tonight's sunset looks promising, I'll endeavour to acquire a amend advantage point.
After dinner, nosotros were watching telly when the air current started blowing. It blew tearing in addition to hard all nighttime long, making slumber difficult. I don't similar big air current at whatever time, nor whatever place, but big air current inwards an RV is particularly disconcerting. I'm non scared yesteryear it, but I worry that things are getting pulled apart in addition to whipped around. It's hard to slumber piece I'm lying listening for disaster. This morning, things are nevertheless intact, but I experience a nap is inwards my future.
The weather condition is changing chop-chop here. When nosotros drove inwards yesterday afternoon, the temperature was 74 degrees. Tonight's depression is predicted to go 26 degrees, in addition to this alter inwards the weather condition explains the wind. We're hoping it volition go over yesteryear this afternoon...but it volition go significantly colder. Despite the chilly temperatures, we're expecting zip but sunshine for the adjacent calendar week or more.
So that's pretty much all I convey to state almost yesterday's drive. However, it's fourth dimension to position a goal for February's
As I've already mentioned, we're expecting a meet-up amongst Erik in addition to Mae adjacent week, but for this outset calendar week inwards Pahrump, there's absolutely zip on the agenda. It should give me enough of fourth dimension to sew. My goal for Feb is to stitch my Tiny Tuesday blocks from in conclusion year's sew-along into a finished quilt top. I can't yell back if the photograph below includes all the blocks, but it's the most recent 1 I have.
I'll stitch them together in addition to give them a distich of borders. The quilting volition ask to hold off for now, but getting it sewn into a flimsy volition go a practiced goal for the month.