>> ;-))
>> Bob V.
Listen here pardoner,
A brutal California Sun, desert hot lips, calamari eyeballs from the systematic wandering about cemented mud curdled lakebeds at the lowest elevations (=hottest), more than ocassional furnace-like winds, brilliant white glare, the encouragement of the participation of others may not be as exotic or isolated as Johnny Quest and Hodgi getting stuck in a Land Rover in the Sahara crawling with contrasting African cultures, but only the sponsored Antarctic hunters might have better bragging rights.
Typical Mohave desert humidity this time of year is in the 10% to 20% range; temperatures to around 110°F (43.3°C) in the lower areas; and gusts common in the 30 mph (50 kph) range, according to the almanac. The highest month-long temperature ever measured on Earth was there (and probably during that month it also beat the Libyan single measurement world record one degree more that the corresponding California record). And I believe that by many measures in the summertime the Mohave (Death Valley) area frequently has the record hottest month on earth.
And then there's always all the pieces of Mars - which you know for a fact were US Martians:) - and all the new material successfully recovered. Sure we have similar conditions here in Northern Mexico... But that Mars and long list of lakebed finds is part of being intrepid which is hard to ignore and silences those of us who try to realize or meteorite hunting dreams ... of course along with the other hardy pardners in your extremely challenging sandbox (or groutflats), where Kit Carson blazed trails, native Americans once survived and thrived, curious ghost towns remind us of Zane Grey romance and hardships of the American frontier, bones of goldseekers and cattle alike are concealed or ocassionally windblown exposed to catch a passing dried tumbleweed, and for archaelogists even the challenge to reveal the site that most probably the great Aztec Empire and Culture was born in an earlier time.
Yup, reconsidered, you're intrepid. No need to be bashful about it ...
Saludos
Doug
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