Day 52: through the desert

From Blythe I rode south at first through more fields but soon the desert began to show. After a while there were mounds of dark rock and the road narrowed and the dips got deeper and steeper. It was like a rollercoaster, slow up, fast down, over and over. This gave way to dunes, pure sand dunes. I rode through 7 miles of dunes. On one side, heavy use by ohvs on the other side unspoiled Imperial Dunes National Park. After a few more miles of desert the farms were back. The town of Brawley invited me to pitch my tent in some nice grass by their public pool. While there a local invited me to come eat food at their house. I ate thanksgiving leftovers and we talked. Now I'm back in my tent tired from 90 plus miles of riding.