Monday morning and time to start thinking of home.

I try to go west and end up on some remote dirt roads east of Gila Bend.
Pretty strange country!  I fit right in!

I finally make it to Gila Bend, do my laundry and catch up on my e-mail.
Twelve hundred miles to go!

Southwest of Needles, CA I see a transmission power line road that could be a shortcut. 

Only twenty seven miles to blacktop!

Halfway I come across some old mine workings.

I spend the night.

By the next evening I am at the Greenfield flying field near Bakersfield.  Jason, the guy storing Pete brings him out.  In the morning I start my final push for Fort Bragg.

In the Central Valley of California the Almond trees are in bloom.

I stop and go for a walk in the grove with blossom petals falling like snow and bees buzzing overhead.

  By late afternoon I see the last of the sunshine before heading over the coastal hills and into the rain.

2,730 miles round trip.

I am home March 1st.

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Here are some related "Land of no" webpages

Larry Chase, the instigator of the "Land of no": www.roadhaus.com

Dyer Lytle's photos of the campout: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~dyer/

Richard Jones: http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/AzBusRoundup

Kathleen Piper: www.orlyblauvan.blogspot.com

And, here are some related model airplane and rocket webpages

Diesel powered airplane: www.rcnightflying.com look for "World Record Attempt"

Woodland/Davis Aeromodlers: www.wdarc.org

www.arizonarocketryteam.net click on Saturn V button.  Launch videos at the bottom