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Mayhew
1960
Mar. 18 Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
got to get us to the station at Desert City. We bought enough gas there to
get us to a Standard station at
Halloran Wells (the Standard station
at Stateline was out of gas). We were
taking Frank back to Riverside, but
he began to feel better by the time
we reached Baker, so we turned
north at that point & camped near
Silurian Dry Lake at the old site
of RenoVille. We drove 188 miles today.
Minimum temp. tonight was 41°F. Frank
was feeling pretty good by the time
we went to bed.
Mar. 19 We drove north this morning to
look at a couple of sections along
the Amargosa River. Then we drove N.E.
toward Tecopa Pass, after which we
drove north of the Kingston Range, then
east to Mesquite Dry Lake. We had a
difficult time getting out of Mesquite
Dry Lake. The road disappeared, & we
had to climb out of the valley along
a stream bed. We eventually reached
a powerline road. This was a good
road, but had a locked gate on it. We
had to back-track over 1/4 mile and drive
around the gate. We gassed up at
Halloran Wells again, then drove to
Larapah Dry Lake to spend the night.