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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 10/27/2005, you wrote:

> A tad east of Mojave, actually - Daggett, other side of Barstow. I recall you
> writing a while back that you were not too impressed with our railyards. I was
> crushed!

I do not remember that but I have been through the area many times, the 
last time this last May.

> I do remember traveling through Mojave every year when the family went 
> 'camping'
> - in the mid-forties to mid-fifties. Was there a Red Rooster Cafe?  Now, I 
> whiz
> through every so often on the way to Tehachapi - always tempted to close my
> eyes...I liked it the way it was.

I do not remember that one, it was the mid sixties when I first started 
going there.  Many of those places along Sierra Highway are long gone and 
now that the town is bypassed from the east more are going.  I worked in 
several gas stations there and all are gone.  The garage I worked in is 
still there but a mere shadow of its former self.

I still have things stored outside Mojave but will be moving them to 
Ridgecrest.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up

My travel journal
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

My present location is the star on the map in the link below
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=35.588269&longitude=-82.629132