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Sonic Fire---Lunar Eclipse...
I know you are out there..
Come tell us all about that desert trip and the lunar Eclipse. Please?
I really am looking forward to your tale. So is..well... him....and everyone else here!!
Spill It Dude...
PG
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C'mon...keep a few of us sane!
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Sonic you know i was watching the eclipse that night and actually thought of you 
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SonicFire
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Hey Romi, Moya and you little devil, PG!
OK, spilling it...
Ya'll may not believe me but, I'm not a big writer...I'm packing to go to Laughlin Nev. for Memorial Day weekend...Holiday, for you delightful
European Cult brothers and sisters...my brother has a jet boat we are taking to 'the river' (the Colorado River-Big Red, you know, where London Bridge
is!) another family has a house boat were we will boat to and proceed to make complete desert river rats out of our self respecting selves.
So, I had a couple of glasses of Tequila ran the LA DVD (Awesome!) and stroked some 'keys' and saw PG's post here and had to spill it...
Well, I'm going to tell ya'll what happened, but the personal stuff...you will have to u2u a message to me if you are THAT interested. Yes, I do
start the party the 'guy in the back of the room', then I finish, 'the guy that wont leave'. So, you'll have to tell me if you want the DIRT.
WEDNESDAY night,
I finished packing and got some sleep. (amazing)
THURSDAY morning,
Got up at 4AM, made some calls, confirmed our guests and got the personal stuff done. Fired up the Suburban and made sure we had plenty of coffee and
sticky buns. Pushed in the RISE CD and proceeded to pick up guests and hit the four hour road to cross into Mexico, visit the TECATE Brewing Company
when they opened for a round of free beers, then fresh chicken tacos for the two hour super highway run to the dry lake turnoff. Cranking tunes the
whole way we finished the food and some got additional 'shut eye' while others talked about our last trips to Mex and the Dez!
The turnoff to the 40 km drive on the dry lake. We make the right turn heading south and I pull to the side to drop some air pressure and load my
'booze camel drinking system'. I check the truck for any glitches and found none, we all got in and buckled up for the hour long dry lake run going
as fast as the jalopy will carry us...
[Click] The belt i fastened and I slowly find a track in the sandy bottom of the endless dry lake...increasing power...the pedal finally reaching
max...75 mph on the longest dry lake in Baja...FLYING...visions of water nymphs and Beer glisten with the mirages on the endless dry lake surface
while the CULT LIVE plays on the CD, starting with the Phoenix...
Flying...some bumps make the front wheels almost come off the ground, others make it feel like we are going to roll...so I adjust power to keep it on
the tracks in the sand and avoid hitting a rough spot or going to fast and getting to much air...but still flying while LIVE CULT ROCKS and now
everyone is awake and drinking a beer (its at least 85 degrees already heading to 105 degrees late in the day)...
the kliks (kms) go fast and soon we are turning more southwest and now moving into the canyon road to take us into the slot road to higher elevation
and to the palm oasis...we hit the first vegetation (a mesquite grove) and stop and take a 5 minute break, marvelling at the mountain rift in front of
us, at least a 4,000 ft drop off from the top of the mountains to the desert floor where we are, in the deepest longest dry lake in Baja California,
Mexico and also the hottest spot in North America, hotter than Death Valley! At 11 AM the temp on the floor is 90 degrees with the temperature on the
ground, with your hand flat on the dirt, at least 105 degrees!
More tonight...
"No eternal reward will forgive us now, for wasting the dawn".
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Planet Girl
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Cool!
Thanks Fire....I am looking forward to your next instalment. I really should have gone with you!!! I can feel the heat already....
PG
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SonicFire
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Sorry!
Packing took too long, I'm late, so I'll post the next section after the "Holiday".
Any Cult fans going to Laughlin Nev this weekend...casinos, boats, houseboat...call me 619-470-1890
Got to go!
Fire:flame:
"No eternal reward will forgive us now, for wasting the dawn".
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Planet Girl
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Have fun Fire! See ya when you get back!
PG
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damn dude thats one helluva trip!!:o wish i had adventures like that.......................
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out...Try to take someone you hate with you" - Peter Steele
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How's it going Fire?
PG
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Lunar Eclipse Story continued...
Laughlin, now Cabo, leaving on Tuesday morning, Full Moon, 81 degree Sea of Cortez water and a southern hemisphere swell hitting Cabo this week (Cabo
San Lucas / Los Cabos Mexico, home of Sammy Hagars "Cabo Wabo Cantina" at the southern end of Baja California Mexico, the tip with an incredible sea
arch, has been described as looking like the Isle Of Wight. [romi, if you are listening, if you make it to San Diego, I'll take you to Cabo on me]
[PG, Moya and sexpan, same offer, but you have to get to San Diego ASAP]
continuing the Lunar Eclipse story,
after about an hour of dry lake driving, it was time to pull over and take a beer break. The view of the mountains to the west was one that I had not
seen before. It was midday and every time I have made this trip, I was crossing the lake bed in the middle of the night or very early in the morning.
So, the mountains shaded from the afternoon sun was different. Remember, I'm heading south (deeper into Mexico) with the mountains on the right and an
incredible palm oasis with hot springs at every campsite, and a date with the Lunar Eclipse.
The beer was great, ice cold, and fresh. The Tecate brewery in Tecate Mexico was part of my trip, they have a beer garden inside the brewery so I made
a quick visit and bought enough cerveza (beer en espanol) for the trip. As I looked across the dry lake, mirages danced over its dry surface, dust
devils swirling the surface beyond the road.
Back in the truck, I crank the Cult again, bringing it back up to flying speed, the road now is making a slow right turn into a large mezquite grove,
through which the road looks like a tunnel, the trees shaping the sides with their dry branches. Now the road goes over some small sand dunes and
turns to the left catching the graded road up to the canyon.
The canyon road, though graded, is much rougher than the dry lake road, it bumps and grinds over 11 miles, gaining in elevation, up the mouth of the
canyon, where, rock out croppings emerge to the right. Bundles of rocks, then huge contructs of hills of rock with caves throughout. In fact, as I
drive past them, I know of several of them where shaman paintings exist. One in particular, the shaman painted a spirit. A powerful spirit. The spirit
with the RED right arm. The head. body and left arm are in black, but the right arm is RED, an indication the spirit is very powerful.
Now I reach the stands of cholla cactus. All around the road are cactus, some six and seven feet high. For this particular type of cholla cactus, they
are the tallest and one of the largest grives, it goes on for at least a half a mile. The road then reaches the first arroyo crossing. In some years
when the winter rains are heavy, the dry wash becomes a river alive, and a very fun truck-river crossing but, not today, its dry.
Finally I reach the edge of the canyon and almost the end of the truck road. As you come over the edge, in the distance is the oasis. Granite rock
jumbles frame the canyon, but in the distance an immense cluster of green in the middle of the dry desert! Hundreds of palm trees. Washingtonia
filifera, the Desert Palm Tree of Baja California, with many Mexican Blue palm trees, very rare. The groves sit on either side of the canyon, in the
distance, they only exist here because Indians transported the seeds throughout the desert and because of the hot springs, the water.
I move the truck slowly now over granite faces of rock then to the last crossing of the arroyo. But, this crossing has lots of water, from the winter
rains running off the mountains. I gun it and fly into the three foot high water stream across, splashing water all over the truck into the cab
(refreshing) to the other side of sand and rock, huge rock ledges and walls are now on either side of the truck as I inch my way to the camps.
Now, into the palm groves, and into camp, We are the only people here, with the Eclipse only hours away. I stop the truck, get out and walk directly
to my favorite camp. "The Frog". The hand built concrete and natural rock pool sits on the canyon edge on the southern side, with a view overlooking
the dry lake and the entire canyon, with spires of the granite mountains to the west, or left side when you are facing north (the other side of the
canyon and the other palm grove. Important, becuse during full moon evenings, one can be relaxing in the private hot spring pool and looking away from
the intense full moon light at the other palm grove all lit with camp fires and the blueish/greyish light of the full moon. The palm trees look grey
in the full moon light.
But, tonight, is an eclipse of the moon.
more when I return...
Fire
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[Edited on 6-9-2003 by SonicFire]
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by SonicFire]
"No eternal reward will forgive us now, for wasting the dawn".
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SonicFire
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Back from Cabo...Another thread in the making, full moon and real pirates!
Back to the eclipse...
So, we pull in and set up camp. Which includes filling the hot spring tub, the water comes out of the ground at 120 degrees, so you've got to draw the
water one or more hours before you use it. The tub, which fits like five to seven people sits on the canyon edge. The palm oasis on the other side of
the canyon is the incredible view, hundreds of palm trees...green in the middle of the desert. Directly below, a mountain stream runs through the
canyon around immense boulders forming waterfalls and pools. A nice respite from the hot water during the day. Further upstream, one waterfall is
thirty feet high and deep!
After finishing a sixer of Tecate and finishing off a charbroiled chicken, the gang enjoys nightfall and jumps in the hot spring moments away from
moon cresting over the ridge...
more after I unpack...
Fire:flame:
"No eternal reward will forgive us now, for wasting the dawn".
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Planet Girl
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Wow!
I'm impresssed Fire! You certainly know how to have a good time. I really liked how you descrbed all the cactus...I love cactus and even have some
here at the house....huge monsters! In pots. Had to bring the desert home with me!
Keep it coming!
Planet
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:)
Hey Fire,
I know your out there...
Glad to you know your alive and well.
Next time I travel I may just come to San Diego! Cabo sounds wonderful!!!! I just saw a show yesterday on how Sammy makes his tequila...very
cool.
Planet
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