Somewhere around Barstow — The edge of the desert, CA
The desert isn’t any place to mess around. The heat will turn your brain useless in a matter of minutes and no one is in the mood for fair skinned tourists with car problems. Sue doesn’t have AC and neither does The Streaker for that matter. Ever notice how vintage travel trailers resemble toasters? Anyone at HQ picking this up?
It’s too hot to drive with the windows up, but if I roll them down I’m a sweaty tangle under God’s mighty Conair-5000. It’s even too hot to listen to music so all I have is the mocking squeak from an ill-placed Styrofoam cooler. Better men than I have gone mad under lesser conditions. Luckily for me I found a shirt to make all these desert miles worth it.
Introducing Pappy & Harriet’s Palace of Pioneeertown, CA. Pioneertown is a fictitious western town built back in 1946 in the desert outside of Joshua tree as a movie set for Westerns. Roy Rodgers, Gene Autry, if he slung a gun in a Hollywood picture back in the 40s and 50s, he stayed here during the filming.
From somewhere under the sun,
Gabe
