...I go running in the morning and it is amazingly hot in this desert, in Banning, CA, even at 9am!
...I am so parched on the way back that I wet my head using some roadside sprinklers on someone’s lawn and then drink a bucket of tapwater at a nearby Burger King...
...I go back to shopping and in Gap I notice some training seminar given to...young shopping clerks?
...I laugh quietly at a Chinese girl asking a sales guy if they accept „AliPay“. What? Apple Pay? Oh... no we don’t have that here.
...we drive on to Joshua Tree park where the Skull Rock makes a particular impression on mea and luckily it’s not too crowded. I fly the drone a bit but not too much.
...we keep driving on the freeway, crossing into Arizona, until it gets dark, we’re tired and it becomes clear we won’t reach Flagstaff tonight. Every nearby place on booking.com seems expensive, cause it’s a Friday, but we pull over at a random gas station to check if there is something that’s not listed maybe?
...and we find an old forgotten dusty motel in a place called Tonopah. It’s just $65 for the room. The clerk isn’t too outgoing, the room is cramped and the air conditioner older than me but we sleep. Oh and it’s the only motel that doesn’t use keycards, we are given an actual old-fashioned key!
2025-02-11