Winter 2020 Trip, Day 24: Salton Sea, Day 6

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Ben

Flight 128 this morning:

This video contains some of the flying and motorcycling from this trip:

I spent the afternoon making Shabbos meals for the first time. Hopefully they won’t be awful!

Good Shabbos from the Salton Sea!

Winter 2020 Trip, Day 23: Salton Sea, Day 5

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Ben

This morning, flight 126, I flew inland to fly low and slow through a wash:

This video contains some of the flying and motorcycling from this trip:

M and I explored the Palm Wash and made a sketchy exit through Robo Notch:

Time to fly again!

Flight 127:

Winter 2020 Trip, Day 22: Salton Sea, Day 4

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Ben

Dawn at Salton Sea:

Winds have finally died down enough to fly, so I launched flight 124:

This video contains some of the flying and motorcycling from this trip:

After the morning flight, M and I drove the motorcycles up Tectonic George to the Calcite Mine:

We then explored Palm Slot, which we last visited in 2014:

My the time we returned to the RV, it was time to fly again:

I launched flight 125:

Winter 2020 Trip, Day 19: Quartzsite and Salton Sea, Day 1

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Ben

M and I had a nice Shabbos with the T family in Scottsdale. It was great to catch up!

Last night we drove west, overnighting just east of Quartzsite, Arizona. This morning was cool and clear:

We drove in to Quartzite, RV capital of the world. We’ve visited Quartzsite many times. Every winter something like 100,000 RVs winter here in the BLM’s Long Term Vehicle Area. This time we just stopped in briefly, but most of the vendors left a week or two ago:

RVs for sale:

We continued on to Salton Sea, home of the annual Salton City and Glamis Fly-In, which I last flew in 2016. Before driving down to the shore, we dumped or sewer tanks and filled the fresh water tank:

Even though the fly-in doesn’t start until Wednesday, there are already plenty of pilots here, visiting from all over the world:

Unfortunately, by the time we were unpacked, a storm front was moving in making flying too dangerous. We drove the motorcycles into nearby Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area: