Mesquite, Nevada

21 May 2012

I had to get here because this was the closest town in Nevada where I could register the trailer properly.  I was running with a temporary registration from New Mexico, which had expired days ago, and the date of expiration was in big black letters on the label on the back of the trailer, so any highway patrolman could easily read it.....  Not a really serious offence, but didn't want to get stopped and have to answer a whole lot of who and where and why questions....  Needed to register it in Nevada, cause that's where the van was registered, and I had a mail forwarding address there that I used as a place of residence.....  There's lots of complications and suspicions that arise when you're footloose without a settled residential address......

Not flying here, way too windy.

A strange, interesting place to visit....

Hundreds of luxury retirement condos in the desert.
But many empty and selling real cheap these days.

Off course they have to find enough water for a golf course, eh....
I thought the best benefit of golf was the exercise, but they're not getting much here....

Another extravagant use of water at this casino.
The casino across the road is all boarded up since the recession....

The weather forecast said that Death Valley was experiencing a relatively cool spell, (just in the 90's) but would soon be up around 115F again.  I thought I'd missed my chance to fly there this summer, but this was an ideal opportunity, and it now wasn't very far away, so had to go there.