inglorious wanderer

The preserve which was declared by President Obama as Mojave Trails National Monument  in February this year. It had  been officially known as Mojave Natonal Preserve under the 1994 California Desert Protection Act.  Cinder cone lava beds? Who knows? I am exploring on my own and I can only look at the map. I took these photos halfway from the  Baker entrance and the Kelso Depot visitor center.  Mojave could also be Mohave,  a word that might have been derived from  aha macave or mahav, Native American words that might meant people living by the water. The Mojave tribe may have lived by the Colorado River. The Mojave National Preseve is basically considered a modern-day ghost town named Kelso. The Kelso Depot which has been converted as a visitor center  was built by the Union Pacific Railroad system.  The railways along with the depot are still intact.  While the railway traverses from southwest to the northeast, visitors have the option...

From Barstow, I drove 188 miles one way to see for myself the original London Bridge. I drove more than 3 hours by I-40 just to make sure that the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City in Arizona is not a joke. A  bridge reconstructed from the remains of the original London Bridge built between 1176 and 1209 that survived till the 18th century and a total cost of $5.1 million to relocate in Arizona is not a joke. Instead of the Thames River, the Orginal London Bridge is constructed over a channel that flows from Lake Havasu and Colorado River. Instead of the industrial and cosmopolitan setting of the modern day London Bridge, the Original London Bridge has a vast desert wilderness as a backdrop. The London Bridge at Lake Havasu is to me similar to calling the ancestral domain of the Havasupai as Grand Canyon.