Zzyzx weekend

What was the most fun this weekend??

Hanging out at Zzyzx springs? Watching desert tortoises?


Checking out petroglyphs?
Crawling around in lava tubes?

Crawling around Hole in the Wall?
Checking out the Early Man excavation near Calico?
Seeing all the pretty cactus and flowers blooming - such as this desert senna?
Hunting for scorpions at night with ultraviolet lights?
Visiting Mitchell Caverns??


Or was it the interesting people I met? The best stories I heard:
From Darlene, when she was younger and living in Florida she and her friends would take one father's speedboat and go over to Cuba to hang on a beach there. That is, until the Cuban Coast Guard saw them and chased them, shooting. Their boat was all shot up, but they emerged with their lives intact.
Or from Allen, whose wife Nancy he first should have met when he was taking draft evaders up to Canada and dropping them off at a safehouse, where she was helping. But they met many years later, when she took her children to the nudist colony that he was managing.

A great weekend all around!