Roadtrip from Vegas to Joshua Tree via the Fabulous Mojave Preserve
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The drive from Vegas to Joshua Tree goes through some beautiful, desolate country...including the Mojave Preserve, a section of old Route 66, The Heart of the Mojave and Wonder Valley. Includes stops in Kelso, Amboy and Wonder Valley -- plus I run over my GoPro with my truck!
Lela A Wilson I enjoy these videos so much! I lived in Nevada for years and my family moved to about 10 miles south of Denim and I often visited them there. I live in Tennessee now and miss the beautiful dessert!
I once lived in Tennessee and a neighbor moved in. He planted a southwest way, threw driftwood around. Let his grass die. It was funny.
So many great videos I missed over the years. Really good stuff, too.
I lived in Joshua Tree for 4 yrs in the late 70's. Roamed all over the landscape in the area ( 100 mi all directions ).. loved it,, much history out there! The area is full of wildlife, sheep ,big cats, coyote,birds,and insects. Keep doing what you do, be safe, carry on !
This video brought me to tears 😢
I spent much of my childhood in Joshua Tree and 29 Palms… my mom and my grandmother are buried out there in the cemetery. It always makes me sad when I realize that they are all gone and I have no more reasons to take that Amazing trek from Vegas to Joshua Tree 😢 It was nice to see it though! Thank you 💜
stopped the video right before burning one and bikini. great video i learned a lot my brother lives in yucca valley. you sure make it interesting. thanks again.
When I was stationed in 29 Palms back in the 80’s Amboy was almost completely abandoned and nothing was open. It sits right on the edge of the range where we held exercises and when we’d fire artillery at 5:00 AM we’d say “Good morning, Amboy”. Wife and I used to go poke around those old abandoned homesteads out there in the desert. Good times.
I was on holiday there in 1989 and I seem to remember there was a sign "For Sale - Town of Amboy. All homes, businesses and the job of the major".
Real cool love the old deco how our artifacts take us back instantly to a long gone era
❤ ... another very cool old adventure from the Wonder in January of '24 ...
thanx , Wonder , you are awesomeness ! 😊
The phone booth story is amazing! You can still call the number, someone purchased it and set up a conference line so people can call and talk to one another. Just tried it out and it still works!
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Wonder hussy. Love your adventurous spirit. I want to be more like you Jon
I just LOVE Your Voice,,, I could listen to You all Day Long,,, Your Enthusiasm is infectious,,, Love all Your Adventures,,, Your Hat is just Great,,, Stay Safe...!!!!!
Nicely said," Desert takes away everything".
Yeah. Another one from our girl. Your videos keep getting better & better. Love you.
Thank you for all the adventures. I worked a lot of the areas you love as a CHP officer and you check out everything I always wanted to do myself.Calico ghost town near Barstow as a suggestion...
if you havent covered it already.Thanks again.
We used call the phone booth to find out what was going on for years before cell phones. You l00k and sound sharp!!
This phone booth story was amazing. You find the oddest stories!!!
Ha, the phone booth story is great! 😁 Thanks for sharing. :)
interesting places . very calm places . nice hat .
WH, one of your best. Just you talking about places in the desert. Thanks.
Love the videos of your travels! I enjoy all your talking you are fun with a great personality! And attractive also! Kinda binge watching! ;)
ah, Wonderhussy I love your videos! Your iconic dialogue is so enjoyable to listen to. BTW, that pink car was a 55 Chrysler, the clipper was about a 55 Packard. ....and " back in the day" you found your stunning aviator sunglasses.
I'm an old guy and live vacarously thry your videos.
Be safe Wonderhussy, we fans love you!
I especially enjoyed this video because I spent a good part of my youth wandering around Wonder Valley with a .22 caliber rifle shooting cans n' bottles. I owned 5 acres about 6 miles east of 29 Palms just off of Amboy Rd. near the junction of Pinto Mountain Rd. and Indian Trail in beautiful Wonder Valley. My father had homesteaded the land in the 1950's and, as a boy, I helped him build a cabin on the property. Sadly the cabin was made out of wood and not cinder block. When my dad died in the 80's I inherited the land.
Like you I love the desert. But I sold the property because, as you aptly noted in this video, the desert reclaims itself if something is left unattended. Such was the case with my wood cabin. Between the harsh elements and Marines from the local 29 Palms Marine Base shooting up the cabins in the area while on pass with their personal weapons, the desert reclaimed the cabin. Living in Los Angeles, I just got tired of paying taxes on sand.
You had to have driven right passed Pinto Mountain Rd. on your way into 29 Palms. Your commentary of 29 Palms being the red-headed stepchild was spot-on! Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree is high desert and more desirable real estate. And Morongo Valley going west. All much nicer than 29 Palms. More developed. More livable. Cooler.
Have you ever done any shoots in Pioneertown?
Yes I live in Yucca Valley and she needs to go to Pappy and Harriet's that would be cool
What a neat way to come up...! Have you been to 29 lately? It's kind of becoming the cool "new" spot - but I do know there's a whole thing about getting water out to the some of the homestead plots, I think it's always been an issue but now the county is prohibiting water hauling etc etc bc ThE g0v3rNm3nT...!
This brought back memories. Kelso and Amboy. When I was a kid, my parents used to take us Rock Hounding and we stayed at Amboy. My Dad took me to Kelso once too, before it was a tourist attraction. The Amboy Crater is volcanic.
I love watching these videos! I SOO WISH I could do what you do.
How awesome. Love your work. Makes me want to get a 4wd and check out the deserts hear in Australia. I have always wanted to go to the Birdsville races and see the Northern territory. I am definitely a beach girl but am enjoying getting to National parks alot more. You are a big inspiration for me.
All I can say is......WOW! About the GoPro! Wow! Cool video too! I'm envious. So much fun!
I love the Cima Rd drive, which I have been on twice. The Joshua Tree forest there, near the WW1 memorial cross, is spectacular. When I asked a local at the gas station off the interstate if there was anything interesting down the road, I was told no. I think they are just so used to the area that they don't even think about it.
As always your videos are interesting and entertaining with you for an extra splash of beauty. Very well done keep making your desert videos for those of us that just can't get there. Thanks again Wonder Hussy!
Saw this video a year or so ago and thought what a cool place is Wonder Valley... Visited The Palms soon after and was hooked. Any place that plays Tom Waits on their music stream is "top shelf" in my book... Now I live here, pursuing my craft... Great video.... Love this part of the desert... Thanx...
I will be flying back out to the area soon. I will make sure I stop at the restaurants and local shops. Thanks for the heads up
You forgot that there's mountain lions out there as well wonder hussy👌👌 nice throwing Bill and Ted's in there diggin your style
Love your stuff..im waaay down under in New Zealand ..the one thing i cant get over is how windy it always seems..when i think desert i think very hot but very still.. its so Beautiful though we dont really have anything like it here
Great storyteller!
I love your adventures, especially when they are places that I traveled decades ago. Went out to the Kelso Sand Dunes many times in the 60's when the road was an old washboard dirt road. Many interesting adventures were had out there. Love your adventurous spirit and love for the desert.
Wow another great video !
I like your take on out of the way places. I would really would like to see the pictures your going to take. 😝
Another interesting desert adventure with Wonder Hussy. Roy's gas station / cafe / junk food store...I was expecting to see a "Last chance for gas" sign.
While looking at those old cars and the backs of the motel cabins, they reminded me of the Nevada Test Site town. And just as I thought that, you described it as "post-apocalyptic"! Great stuff. Great vid. Excellent job as always.
In the 60s my family used to go out to the Mojave a lot. I remember we followed a dirt road for a while, looking for a town on the map called Lanfair. We came across a phone booth in the middle of nowhere, right where Lanfair, (still on the map today), was supposed to be. It was a hand crank phone. My brother cranked it and got an operator. She told him it was a phone used by telephone linemen working on the lines that ran through the desert.
Another Great, fun, interesting and informative video. That "Clipper" was built by Packard. As always thanks for the fun trip and for sharing!
I drove this way at night on my way home from San Diego. I am so looking forward to doing it during the day. I love the Mojave Preserve so much! Being from the east coast it is just amazing to me.
Thank you for another entertaining video, Wonderhussy. You are very good at what you do.
Love your vids Hussy, dad lived in Trona as a kid so this is all interesting shit. Amboy is owned by Albert Okura, he owns the "Juan Pollo" restaurant chain and is a Route 66 preservationist. Reach him at the Juan Pollo office in San Bernardino...that would be a good location for some serious David Lynch type video/pics
I remember those auctions of 5 acre lots. I even bought one, still in the family. It's in the corner of a section, and when it's built up (ha ha) it would be a good place for a gas station. This was in the early 50's. When I checked with a well digger company back then, the well guy just laughed.But hey, you never know. The lot is about 20 miles out of Twentynine Palms.
Love you and your videos!!!!!!
Great videos as always keep them coming
When you get your 4x4 you MUST do the Mojave Road. Plan on at least a 3 day trip and that's not really long enough. I've done it twice now and still need to go back. There is so much to see just off the trail. Could take years of trips to see it all.
Its me the old lady nancy in texas. Haven't been on much of late going to doctors again. but nothing big just fell broke my arm and getting all new teeth. That may sound nuts at my age,but i'm planning on staying around awhile so I need teeth to keep eating chill pies.ha,ha, I just watched two of your newest vid. about up around burning Man country and the great hot spring. Know you enjoyed them.Hope to see lots of new ones .Have fun,be safe, and do all you can while you can Think of you often and where you are at that time. be well, Your old friend in texas Big hug.
Wonder Hussy Darling, you brought back some memories on this one. I remember being able to eat some good food at Roy's 🙂 Hell, I was at 29 Palms for a few. That was a pretty cool town back in the day. Between I-15 and I-40 if I remember right. You have Barstow, Needles, Baker, Primm, Bullhead City (brings stories of Lake Mead LOL). Ahh I got A LOT of thrills on route 66 😏
I spent about 3 weeks out in that desert you are in there. Just wondered around bivouacking and partying with the locals and Indigenous people. LOL, kinda' reminds me of Winslow also 😬
I just got to the part where you went through 29 Palms..LOL Thanks Darling 👍✌
Those glasses are crazy cool
At the age of 3 - 6, I would ride on the back of tortoises my Aunt had in Joshua tree. My Aunt and Uncle built their home out of cinder block and powered their homestead by Wind. I teach survival because of my early desert experiences. My Aunt thought me to throw rocks at barrel cacti to cut the top off for water and what napalitos are. I am about to go full time on the road in my SUV or my 22 foot pull trailer. I think the SUV may win out. KEEP filming and living Free!
Wow so many cooks things in th oh s video. The old railroad station and town!!!
The palm bar and dive, my kind of hang out, were everybody knows you name.
The old motel on highway 66, our family and I drove through Mojave when I was a kid. I'm sure we went p.k ast it, don't remember it.
But, that would be an awesome spot for you to model at. Let's make that happen!!!
You are the coolest girl!
Wow! What a story!(8-) Believe it or not, we have quite an Amish community around here (Northeast Missouri).
Each little "community" has 1 phone shack. They don't believe a body should be spendin' heaps of time on the
phone. Go figure(8-).
And that is one hell of a camera, Sarah. Not only did it still work after you ran over it, but this video is still
lookin' good after a whole year...no fading...not blur...and you're still gorgeous...(8-).
when you went to the cabin behind the post office that said look and enjoy at about 10:05 or so the reflection or inside the little locked building looked like there was a wolf or big husky looking dog in the window looked like a reflection but I don't know and you didn't pan back faded to another scene of the back
and there is not a lot to do at 29 stumps there was an old awesome cheap mexican restaurant that had these huge burritos that were freaking awesome but then most anything was better than any bag nasty we ever got. I actually love all of that area but is has been almost 35 years since I have been there and looks almost what I remember but then again I hardly remember what I did yesterday sometimes
Keep these awesome vids coming more of the surroundings please...not that you are hard at all to look at, love looking at you but don't need that distraction right now oh hell never mind
Semper Fi
You being back memories of where I grew up.... man, nothing changed from when I was last there in 2013 vising family.... in fact nothing has changed since I left 29 back in 97.... I defiantly have a lot of OLD stories of Devil Worshipers in the Amboy crater to UFO's out near Giant Rock (Which you need to see)....
I love the Mojave Phone Booth story. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Apparently the number still works. I’m happy how the GoPro story turned out. Fortunately you didn’t have drive too far to get back to The Palms Restaurant from 29 Palms. That place sounds amazing, btw. I know you’re gonna get around to Pioneertown. That place ROCKS! I drove that Burns Canyon road back up to Big Bear. In my old beater Datsun B210.
I've hung out in a lot of those places....love your videos
the way you talk about all the area's makes me want to be right there with you
I can feel the warm desert night winds
So now I’ve been watching your videos for a while and who you remind me of is Hillary Shank great movie star you’re just as beautiful thank you for your videos keep them coming
Great trip! Those 'high heeled long neck sandals' sound great too. Great custom Hat. The cars were a Packard Clipper and a Chrysler Imperial from the mid 50's. Missed seeing much of your outfit. :{[ Get your body guard to hold the GoPro for a reveal please.
Happy Weekend. Mothers Day.
funny coincidence my cousins use to call the Mojave phone booth in the early 90's.
great video W.H. Slainte
ya'll should be psychic phone friends!
you're not making much sense
Perfect place to make a zombie movie.Hey You make every trip a supper trip, so cool. This place is HOT-warm thing.TH
The Aiken Cinder Mine is a dirt road trip from where you were and it looks to be an amazing trip if you wanted to try it.
they shot quite a few episiods of the originalTwilight Zone out that way. the cafe there in Amboy is wher Cliff Robertson went looking for water and medicine for his sick boy. ot"s of history in that area. people stil search that area for the Lost Dutch Oven Mine.
Richard Almo Dutch oven mine.... lot's of value in old farts under blankets
The game Fallout New Vegas takes place, to a large part in Mojave. Certainly in the top 10-20 of best games ever made.
John Hull HAHAHA
i'm may be old but i'm not Dead yet. as for blanket's i don't own any.
I hear the clip clop of those heels anywhere, and my head swivels looking for the fashion pony....kek.
Now you're looking at MY old stomping grounds. It's a very interesting part of the Southwest desert. A lot of history, both ancient and recent.
A neat VINTAGE WH video...Been to several of the stops you made but never taken the road all the way through in one trip. A few new spots to stop and look at sometime that I missed. Wondering if you get notice on comments on your older videos... See ya soon on the next post...:D
great video
Back when I work for ca fish and game and was a member of the society for big horn sheep I stayed at Amboy
Nice video. I enjoyed this trip and 29 Palms. As a marine I have been there, but always by air and short layover. The base is humongous. Too bad about the GoPro but at least you got most of it back.
and there isn't a Palm tree forever. 29 stumps was the best
Semper Fi
yeah! I want 5 acres in the desert!
Nice vid !
I must say while watchin this i noticed that hat just complements your image so well nice . I use to do some freelance photography but nothing so fine ; )
+Dave30867 thanks!!
Love that hat but now there's a whole flock of birds that can't fly!
Good name for a band, “The Mojave Phone Booth”.
Welcome to JT, wish I could have seen the shoot.
Just want to correct a few of you. The man's name was Ingram Cecil Conner III (Gram, for short).
WH, we'll cross paths one of these days..Been to a lot of these same places ;-)
This girl is so nice and purdy.
I grow up in yucca valley California and drove through amboy serval times over the years and it is the amboy crater a died volcano. 👮♂️
So somebody has saved Roy's, last I heard it was abandoned and falling apart. Wasn't a scene from the old movie 'The chase" filmed there.
Cool video :)
I do believe this was the same phone booth that was featured on the "Art Bell" show back in 1999. People would call in from the phone booth, he would call it etc.
I stayed at Joshua Tree Inn after Graham Parson packed it in there. His Body was later hauled up on Cap Rock and doused with gasoline by his Road Manager and a Roadie - kind of a Viking sendoff? Flames were visible (from Space?). I used to Rock Climb there. Amazing, the Genius Byrd Bro hisself - “Hey, Mr. Spaceman” (their HIT then). What a Starry Night Sky for Flying Saucer Watchers! And then, at least there was a that local UFO Church. ¡Oh Yeah!
WooHoo, WonderHussy!
Someone in one of your videos commented that you talk to much and shut up a bit, my take on this is keep on going just as you are because personally I find your narration informative, interesting as well as witty and funny. :-D
Route 66 turns interesting in Arizona. Check out Peach Springs.😊❤️
There is a vault toilet at the Dunes parking lot . Thanks
My dad and his husband owned The Palms in WonderValley!
Wonder Hussey if you have gotten that dream land with your sister I applaud you. Make sure you look very seriously into a basement house. The area in which you were building go 12 feet deep with a concrete floor with radiant heating From evacuated solar tubes. I am getting ready to build the same thing very close to where you’re at, which I will not disclose in a comment of course
If you get a 4X4 get one with a good skid plate to save the oil pan or other under parts it will make you that much safer and more confident.Remember the old road-sign, 20 miles from town, ten miles from water, 10 feet from Hell.
Amboy looks like a place some slasher movies were filmed.
22:18 The bison's range never extended that far south to the desert country. The resturant sign is wrong.
Packard Clipper and Chrysler Imperial, deep rides during their time. Somebody behind you! Lol. Go Pro, too funny. You didn't show the pool?
Both are 1955 models. The Imperial was actually its own make starting that year, but before then, it was a pricey Chrysler model.
Amboy crater is an 80,000 year old crater of a Cinder Volcano and the filming location for Journey to the Center of the Earth.
3:18 jack rabbits, quail, chukkars, doves, crows possibly desert bighorn sheep.
You need to do the original Mohave trail from Laughlin to Barstow.
Cool story ;-)
dang huss you missed the kelso dunes
You missed the Shoe Tree, but enjoyed the trip..again. thx Also noteable, 66 signs had to be painted on the road because everyone stole the real signs.
The Palms. YIKES! I can't believe how many places have been named 'The Palms". My mom and dad's second favorite places to eat in Barstow was called "The Palms". It was Chinese and American food, and the food was actually pretty damned good for a while. Then Lord only knows what happened but almost overnight it became mediocre to gawd awful, and still is. But, back then, my parents were stuck with what little was offered in town. Yeah, I had to eat that crap too.
I graduated from Barstow High in 1974 , and after I left and got married my husband then and I went to visited them often over the decades. It's 2020 and my dad still lives there so yup, I still go back. Pops and I go to different places now because the memory of the places, that still exist, that my deceased mom and he went to is too painful for him.
BTW, Eat at Rosita's if you can. They are second and third generation owners. now. My parents became regular customers and knew the family well. The food is the best Mexican you could get, and still can get, in Barstow. The recipes have been passed down from generation to generation and the food is as delicious as it was back when I was 16 (I'm 63 now) Pops just can't eat there after mom died, but occasionally, when I go to visit him, I sneak out and grab a bite there.