Landers, California

On the road to Landers, Ca. Where's Landers? Just North of Yucca Vally, Ca. Where's Yucca Valley? A ways East of San Bernardino. Home of the 7.3 earthquake in 1992. Now that's a nice earthquake. The nice thing is, there's a lot of sand there and not much pavement to crack. If that quake had been near our home in Palo Alto, things would have been worse. We did have a nice 7.1 in 1989, but, even with the damage it caused, it's a baby compared to a 7.3, maybe a teenager?

We headed South from Las Vegas on I15 then headed South into the Mojave Preserve to Cima, then Kelso. Nice narrow two lane roads, in good shape. Mojave Preserve is rather new.


We stopped at the old railroad depot in Kelso, Ca, now headquarters for the Mojave National Preserve and has a nice museum.

We left Kelso heading South toward Amboy, crossing I40 and then joining the old Route 66. From Amboy, we continued South to Twenty-nine Palms then West to Yucca Valley on Highway 62. We then headed North the 10 miles to Landers on Highway 247. Nice route but a lot of the roads didn't seem to even have road numbers.
We stopped by Don's uncle Emery's place in Landers. We had a nice visit with Emery and Mary. We went down to yucca Valley for dinner at an excellent Mexican restaurant.

Later in the evening, we went outside to watch the space station pass overhead. It sure is a fast moving bright light.

When we arrived, we left the motorhome at the post office because we don't trust the sandy road into Emery's place. Better safe than sorry! We spent the night there as well, leaving early in the morning. Nice and quite in the high desert.