dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

5/27
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It turns out that the final mile of Kelso Dunes Road has not been freshly graded, and is the usual sand and washboard

07790-kelso-dunes-road.jpg It's that time of day again when the Mojave Desert sunset briefly illuminates everything in its own special wayThumbnailsAs I approach Kelso, I see an RV driving up the paved Kelbaker RoadIt's that time of day again when the Mojave Desert sunset briefly illuminates everything in its own special wayThumbnailsAs I approach Kelso, I see an RV driving up the paved Kelbaker RoadIt's that time of day again when the Mojave Desert sunset briefly illuminates everything in its own special wayThumbnailsAs I approach Kelso, I see an RV driving up the paved Kelbaker RoadIt's that time of day again when the Mojave Desert sunset briefly illuminates everything in its own special wayThumbnailsAs I approach Kelso, I see an RV driving up the paved Kelbaker RoadIt's that time of day again when the Mojave Desert sunset briefly illuminates everything in its own special wayThumbnailsAs I approach Kelso, I see an RV driving up the paved Kelbaker Road

Here at the end of Kelso Dunes Road, I take the right fork past "the campsite with a tree," but the campsite has already been claimed, as expected on a long weekend.