Road Trip!

Took another trip down highway 395 to visit family and my doctor.  Just the other day we had a pretty big snowstorm--not much at our place but the Sierras in general got socked pretty hard.  We've been hearing the avalanche canons going off a lot as they try and knock loose some of the more dangerous areas.

Luckily for me the roads were pretty clear by the time I drove through. The hot springs off the side of the road at Devil's Gate Summit were drifting huge clouds of steam over the roadway...

All in all it was a nice drive and the weather took mercy on me this time.

Mojave is...interesting.  Half thriving, half waaay dead. There doesn't seem to be anything in between.  The AP/PM station there is like the 9th circle of Hell with it's broken gas pumps, the drug addicts-begging-money gauntlet you have to run if you want to go inside and the floor to ceiling tagging that is carved into every available surface (even the toilet seat, I kid you not) of the bathroom.

Why anyone would want to grip a public toilet seat long enough to carve their tag into it is beyond me.

But the local Army/Navy store--sadly closed now--is fascinating. They have fun signage.

Wait...2nd annual...?

They also had some random signs someone had made...most of them were generic yearlong holiday themed but this one stood out.

'Sorry you're no spruce goose anymore'. Okaaay...

Running the lawnmower over the waterfowl is a bit much, tho.

Farther down the street is a local RV park with a cute sign.

And an old factory of some kind...

Wait--what's the sign say...?

Oh.
Do they even allow grass in Mojave...?