12/04/2025 Return the Rental Car on eBike

12/03/2025 RAAWR Day 9 : Early Termination

12/01/2025 RAAWR Day 7 : Mystery illness

11/30/2025 RAAWR Day 6 : The Bagdad Cafe

11/29/2025 RAAWR Day 5 : Devils Playground

I felt sicker in the night and we looked into  a rental car to come home and rest. Although the web would let us book a car from just down the street, I called to verify.

“Good thing you went with your intuition,” the man on the other end of the line said, “I don’t have any cars for today or for tomorrow.”  We thanked him and then expanded our search to Palm Springs - about 40 miles away. 

They had cars at the Palm Springs airport, but riding down the highway didn’t seem fun. Zooming into the map, though, I saw the “Sand to Snow National Monument”. Could bikes go through?  At first it was not clear, but I did learn that this NM was established on 2016 by President Obama - and there was a dirt road right through the middle of it!  

The exploratory nature of this new route made up for thr loss of the ride through Joshua Tree, Salton Sea, and Anxa Borrego coming up. 

We had a sand blasting tailwind and arrived hours earlier than we predicted. On the future, we may do further desert exploring. Desert camping is fun and easy, so we are likely t come back.

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12/03/2025 RAAWR Day 9 : Early Termination

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12/04/2025 Return the Rental Car on eBike

12/03/2025 RAAWR Day 9 : Early Termination

12/01/2025 RAAWR Day 7 : Mystery illness

11/30/2025 RAAWR Day 6 : The Bagdad Cafe

11/29/2025 RAAWR Day 5 : Devils Playground

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