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This morning, after breakfast buffet at the Big Boy, I ride the bridge over the freeway and enter Mojave National Preserve

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3235-kelbaker-road-bridge.jpg Last night's sunset at Baker, California, home of the world's tallest thermometer, was a pleasant pinkish glowThumbnailsOnce across the I-15 freeway on Kelbaker Road, this Mojave National Preserve trip is really startingLast night's sunset at Baker, California, home of the world's tallest thermometer, was a pleasant pinkish glowThumbnailsOnce across the I-15 freeway on Kelbaker Road, this Mojave National Preserve trip is really startingLast night's sunset at Baker, California, home of the world's tallest thermometer, was a pleasant pinkish glowThumbnailsOnce across the I-15 freeway on Kelbaker Road, this Mojave National Preserve trip is really startingLast night's sunset at Baker, California, home of the world's tallest thermometer, was a pleasant pinkish glowThumbnailsOnce across the I-15 freeway on Kelbaker Road, this Mojave National Preserve trip is really startingLast night's sunset at Baker, California, home of the world's tallest thermometer, was a pleasant pinkish glowThumbnailsOnce across the I-15 freeway on Kelbaker Road, this Mojave National Preserve trip is really starting

After filling up on food, I fill up on water from the Country Store, and am carrying a nice heavy load of about 18 litres, necessary in today's heat and to support my dry campsite tonight and tomorrow night.