Day 188

I took the day off today for one reason. To do a live video call with TAM at the luncheon before their huge FEDUP rally in Washington D.C. I was looking forward to it and so were they. All I needed was to stay in the hotel one more day because they had the only wifi in about 200 miles lol. Well sure enough, the wifi went out about 2 hours before the scheduled time putting me edge. As the time got closer and closer, there was no sign that it would be working again. I went to the front desk and they were working on it but they said it didn’t look promising for the time I needed it.

 

I was bummed out about that but I know worse things have happened. I decided not to waste the day completely and asked John if he minded doing one more favor for me. I was about to head into the desert for 90 miles without any services and I asked if he would be ok to drive me to the halfway point and drop some water off there so that I could refill my containers and not have to carry the full 5 day supply of water the whole way. So we went and bought 5 gallons of water and a big bottle of Gatorade and drove out to place it in a good spot.

 

It was beautiful out there. We had no idea it was going to be so pretty. We dropped the water around the 45 mile point and then decided to do some climbing on the canyons that we were in. We found a great spot and John, me and Domino all climbed to the top and the view was freaking ridiculous. Worth the climb for sure. We found an Altoids container under a pile of rocks at the top and I opended it. There were notes from people who had been there in the past. We left our marks and took some pictures. The ground was very sharp. It was like lava rocky. I was concerned about domino but she seemed to be fine. Having a blast.

 

We decided to keep driving rather than turning around. We drove all the way to the border so that I saw exactly what I was getting myself into. Then we took the main road going back. Me and John were both trying to figure out why the lake on the side of us was white. We thought it may have been salt or maybe it was dried up. Either way, we had to know. We found a driveway and drove down to the lake. Sure enough, it was a dried up lake. I could see the salt forming on the sand so I knew that it was a salt lake when there was actually water in it. We walked around on it and took pictures. A new experience for me. Kind of cool.

 

We were pretty tired after all of this and drove back and John took a power nap while I laid in my bed and stared at the TV. He continued on his road trip a while later and I was alone with Domino and facing some intense days ahead…