Today there will be a few more minutes of daylight than yesterday; Tonight will be a little shorter than last night. Touring in the shorter days of winter can be a challenge. At this time of year, it seems as if the day is only just started,.... and then it's time to start looking for a campsite again. Long nights spent in the tent, with nothing to do but read and sleep.
The Mojave: Flat valleys stretched between low reddish-brown jumbles of volcanic rock; Sagebrush and creosote and smokebush and sand
Sheep Hole Mountains, Highway 62
At milepost 103 on Highway 62, Danny and his dog Jimmy are camped in a roadside pullout; They spend their days pedalling up and down the highway picking up plastic bottles, glass, and aluminum cans; The sign on the back of his bike trailer reads: "Recycling our Highways. Anything Appreciated". He has a small tent, a propane cooker set up on makeshift table, tobacco and a corn cob pipe, cases of bottled water...."I'm out here fer another 3 weeks, y'see"....He explains his arrangement with the county, a sly smile breaks from beneath his handebar mustache: "They come out and pick up my recyclables, then I pick up my money in Blythe".... 
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