A movie set of sorts

Red Rock Canyon State Park

These canyons on our drive this morning have been used in any number of cowboy movies…

Talking to Ramon, a painter enjoying the interplay of light and shapes

Worth standing in the hot sun to capture this image.

Finding Johannesburg and Randsburg in the Mojave Desert

An offbeat, quirky day indeed.

Driving the Mojave Desert, with purpose - Roadrunner. Still no hint of the bird, only Horned Larks.

But in the meantime going past the 'ghost towns' from the gold mining era in California - named Randsburg, Johannesburg, Rand Mine…over lunch Fred was story telling and the couple he was regaling live in Bulawayo Street, Johannesburg, California!

According to Wiki, towns named by miners from our part of the world.

A long lonely road to middle of nowhere, Mojave Desert

The Living Ghost Town of Randsburg

The 100 year old Soda Fountain Bar, the Jail and church, similar priorities a century later?

Fred loving all the JHB references, all junk to me!