Wednesday across the dusty valley of Cali drought, over the hill trying to be prudent with the load and pavement through Gerlach to Wall Spring in the Spring…
Souvenir lumber from three years of Linda’s “Structural Alternatives” class destined to be shelving;
A night home alone with nary a dog in sight and Thursday back down…Espil’s, bottom of the desert, Sand Pass RR crossing and an abandoned singlewide in California’s Sand People Zone;
After Hallelujah Junction, battered old Highway 70 to Sierra Valley…hinting at snow flurries, some of 80 wet, snow melting on Donner and home by lunch with the usual insane valley traffic; glad it’s almost the last time for awhile…
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Wow, that’s a long round trip, Mike. Were you just trying to put some miles on your truck?
Actually just the first of several loads of stuff we need to get out of here for summer…easier than bringing the trailer over and back, cheaper [and by far more convenient] than renting a truck and having to return it to Reno…Friday another load, then Linda brings hers the week after. Miles to go before we sleep, so to speak…
lots of driving for sure! who are/were the sand people?
The ‘sand people’, so-called by a former BLM mining mitigation specialist of our acquaintance, inhabit the scruffy flats between the Herlong Ammunition Dump and Fish Springs Ranch at the south end of Honey Lake. A variety of decrepit trailers, ramshackle sheds of salvage, and ancient campers or RV’s clustered together and scattered among the sandy sagebrush comprise their dwellings, which appear sometimes abandoned, sometimes burnt, population variable. One rarely sees anyone about; they keep to their hovels, presumably engaged in chemistry experiments…