Most everybody seemed to be very much concerned about the Desert. Was it really as bad as it was painted. Of course I can only speak of our own experiences. Our original plan had been to go from Kingman to Needles and then thru to San Bernadino but the Motel Proprietor at Kingman convinced us that we should go thru Boulder Dam - Las Vegas and cross the desert from there. I don't know whether we were unusually fortunate or not but I experienced no particular discomfort on the way out. On the trip home we followed the same route and while it was hot - it aws not unbearably so. No doubt that a Car Cooler would have been a help - but knowing what I know now I would arrange to start crossing the desert at day-break so that by ten or eleven o'clock the worst of it would be behind you. Fear of the Desert is I believe the worst enemy.
No comments:
Post a Comment