Timeless......

 6:54 am - Saturday - March 5th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 54° F, 46% humidity, wind 5 mph out of the west.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 61° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were lunching at a restaurant along the 'River Walk' in San Antonio, TX......↴

I had my window, and curtains open all night Thursday night, and into Friday morning.  The sweet fragrance of sage brush could be sensed all night long, and combined with gentle breezes wafting through the open window made for a very pleasant sleep.  Other than the gentle wind occasionally tugging at the window awning, it was totally still, and without sound.  There was no ambient light to pierce the inky blackness.....I could not see my hand in front of my face.  This nighttime solitude is one of the many things I love about the Anza Borrego Desert.  There seems to be a timelessness woven into the fabric of our existence here......  

.....when we complete our sojourn here we will have spent 3 out of the last 4.5 months at this boondock site since Thanksgiving....our longest time spent boondocking in years.

While TLE made our morning coffee I went up on the roof to clean our four solar panels.  They were pretty dirty after 6 weeks at Newell House collecting dust.  They will work without cleaning them, but they will work much more efficiently if they are clean.  By the time I was back inside the coffee was ready....

....the sun is coming up about an hour earlier than it did when we left back on January 12th, and that means we are getting a positive charge about an hour earlier than we did back then.  We only lost 8% of our 100% charge overnight, and by 12:15 pm we were back to 100%.  Having all four solar panels tilted now does make a big difference.  It was especially notable that it was partly cloudy all day, and we did not have direct sunlight on the panels for much of that time.

After I finished my latest blog entry TLE and I removed the VW from the trailer, then moved the Newell forward about 10 feet, pulled out the turf, and began to set up our 'lido deck'......

.....I then spent time inside the trailer opening up my workbench, and moving my tool bags back to the table for easier access.  We wanted to have a fire, but the forecast winds arrived mid afternoon, causing us to delay that plan for a couple of days.  As I write the winds are still blowing, and will continue through Saturday night, and into Sunday morning.

We did manage to get in one 1.25 mile round trip walk out toward Clark Dry Lake Bed, and back, but the winds, in the afternoon made another walk undesirable.  On Saturday I'll deploy the solar lights, move the bikes from their stowed position to the back of the trailer interior to make it easier to access the workbench.

I forgot to mention in yesterday's post that we watched the final episode of '1883' Friday night.  What a great  limited series it was.  The acting, writing, and character development were superb.  As harsh as life was portrayed in this series, it was 100 times more difficult, and harsh in person.  If you don't shed more than a few tears during the final two episodes I would be surprised.  The loss of life, and daily hardships crossing the Great Plains, and going north through Wyoming, and Montana was startling, and sobering.  Those folks who braved those conditions to get to Oregon were a special breed of folks.   

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