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Well we hemmed and hawed about going to the ride - the 3 day East  
Mojave Scenic - gorgeous high desert country on the eastern border of  
California, about an hour out of Las Vegas. The forecast was rain,  
then snow, wind, cold... we all decided to bag it. (It would have  
been Rusty and his 2 horses traveling with John and I,  and Brian and  
Darla - who would get a ride in and then head back to Canada. )

So we went to the Friday night ballet instead. Kevin got us passes,  
and we went out to dinner and then watched a fantastic production of  
Romeo and Juliet. Really lovely. Congratulating ourselves on a good  
decision to stay home, do the ballet, save some money.

Saturday morning I woke pretty early, checked my email, and checked  
the weather forecast (for the millionth time) and - it looked better,  
Sunday was calling for high of 50 and mostly sunny. hmmmm.......   
Gotta Go!

John and I pulled into camp just after sunset, Rusty and Brian and  
Darla decided they'd stick with the first decision, Rusty had  
rescheduled his yoga classes, and Brian still had his eye on the  
traveling weather forecast, which still wasn't the greatest with  
another storm rolling in.

Other than tales of gales and a brief snowstorm at camp last night,  
everybody here was in great spirits - it was a cold, but beautiful  
sunny ride with fresh skiff of snow on the brush and the joshua trees  
had a couple inches of snow on them. (they're not really 'trees' but  
but a large plant in the yucca family - Yucca brevifolia - which can  
get 10 - 15 ft tall (maybe taller) and makes a very ghostly forest.)

We're parked right next to Steve and Cindy Bradley, and Steve is  
graciously sharing his internet (and generator at the moment) with  
us.  Jim and Clydea are right next to us also, great to have the good  
friends in the sport. I saw a few other familiar faces in the dark at  
the ride meeting - lots of 'XP' folks that we haven't seen in a long  
time (since we haven't been traveling to XP rides in a long time!).  
Should be a nice day tomorrow. I'm ready :)

Steph

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