One night in the desert, almost.

Here are some of the highlights of my journey in the desert.

Being solicited for sex by a married man in an Oldsmobile.

Getting horrifically lost in an ATV park

Dragging El Dorado up and down countless trails only to retrace my steps once they became dead ends

Narrowly escaping being trampled to death by El Dorado as it careened down the hillside, repeatedly.

My epic mood swings, joy to rage in one second flat

Abandoning El Dorado at midnight in the middle of the Mohave

Jogging in the dark along the dirt roads deathgripping my multi tool knife in my hand and more then once stopping dead in my tracks ready to attack a wooden fence post thinking it to be a person.

Jumping army man style into the tumble weeds, desert thorns and yucca plants that lined the dirt roads as a 4Runner with a spotlight drove by scanning the roadsides.

Laying face first in the sand hiding in the shrubs from what I though was the 4Runner coming after me again, it turned out to be a train. I stayed there until it was gone anyways, just in case it was an elaborate trick.


All of this was wonderfully miserable at the time but it has given plenty of hilarious story fodder for days to come.