I lived in Mojave, California for three months and wish I could go back.

My husband was contracting there, and I had the pleasure of accompanying him out there. Oh what a life. We were living in a 36 foot RV so there really wasn't much to do everyday as far as cleaning. 15 minutes and you could have the place clean, dusted and vacuumed. So I pretty much had the day to myself. I would sit outside and take in the view. The days were hot and you ran your air conditioner and the nights were cold that you had to use your heater. I would love to take a good book and go outside and read or just sit out there is the hot sun and the heat and look out at the snow capped mountains and wonder how I could be getting sun burnt when you can see snow capped mountains.

The dessert was a great place to get lost in, but we had to be careful where we drove. Get stuck in soft sand and you would have a long walk to the road to get help. I remember when my husband ran my foot over with his truck, I screamed and he kept driving. Turns out I felt the tire roll over my foot but when I lifted my foot out of the sand, nothing was broke and no pain. Imagine that, a big truck running over your foot and no broken bones.

We use to love to ride way out in the dessert and check out things. We found some old shacks that must have been used way back when, a lot of beer cans and empty bottles, must have been some parties out there too. But what I really liked was all the wild flowers out there in the dessert growing. As hot as it was they still grew. And without water. I don't remember it raining there the three months I was there. We took quite a few drives out in the dessert and there are probally a lot more things to see out there. I just can't believe people lived way out there without nothing, no electric, no water, no Walmart...I guess that is why it is nothing but open land still today.

And the windmills to generate electric. You can see them on the hill tops for miles. Don't try to count all of them, there are too many. They have the right idea, but what do they do when they run out of space to put more?

It was an every day thing to see kids and grownups out in a large field on motorcycles racing back and forth, and it wasn't illegal. I bet today it is filled up with four wheelers. We spent most of our week-ends five miles away at a skydiving place. My husband was into skydiving big time. I would sit there all day and watch the plane take off with it's load of divers and watch them fall through a cloud and open their chutes. No it isn't boring. It was quite fun, especially when you knew someone who was up there in the plane. Try picking him out before his chute is open, hard to do. Once his chute was opened I could pick him out by the colors in it. We met so many nice people out there at the dive station.

So, if you plan on going to Mojave, take time to sit and look at the snow capped mountains and take some drives into the dessert and see what you can find and try counting the windmills. But most of all, enjoy your visit, I did.