Laundry day

 It was nice and quiet here with the whole desert to myself.   I heard rain on the roof last night and expected cloudy skies this morning.  Nope, nice blue skies with large dark puffy clouds.

Santa Rosa Mountains

Had my crackers and coffee while planning my day.  Decided to go ahead and get the laundry out of the way and take a first look at Borrego Springs at the same time.  Started gathering stuff and when I was ready to go I realized I had forgotten to eat my last two breakfast courses.  I hate getting old! 😕  

It was 11:30, so just skipped breakfast and headed to town.  It's 30 mile away, but the drive through the badlands on S22 is beautiful.

All this time I've been going downhill towards the Clark Lake dry bed just outside of Borrego Springs.  Below, I see Black Mountain.  

Now I can clearly see the dry lake bed dead ahead.

With the zoom it looks fantastic.

Now we're heading directly into Borrego Springs at the bottom of the San Ysidro Mountains.

Looks like showers in my future.

Didn't want to make any stops in town today.  Got to get my laundry done and get back to set up the Dish for tonight's Gold Rush.

The area where the laundry is there is a hotel and businesses built like an old western town.

Here's a picture looking east back through town towards Font's Point in the distance.

Poor Yuma did not like sitting around waiting for clothes to dry.  We sat at the entrance since no dogs were allowed.  Since not a soul was there, I wasn't too careful.

Here's what we were seeing.

Luckily, the rain didn't last too long and by the time I had the laundry folded the rain had stopped.  Soon, we were back at the White Lion and everything was put away.    Got the Dish going right off with no problems and fixed dinner early since I was hungry.

Watched the sunset shining its glow on the Salton Sea and the Black Mountains.

And then it was time for TV, finish my post and get ready for bed.  Not a bad day after all.  

See you later.