 Good morning from the Mojave National Preserve. Last night we slept at a place called Kelso Dunes. Mojave National Preserve is let's just say it is on the western tip of the southernmost part of Nevada on the California side. Well guys out here at the Kelso Dunes there are there are plenty of places to boondock. There's a vault toilet trash and for the most part if you come during the day it's pretty easy to find a nice solid camp spot without getting stuck in the sand. And the last mile or so past the toilet is a really rough washboard road. So just go slow. As you guys can see in here there is a train behind us. We're at the Kelso, the town of Kelso at the depot or train station. We just figured we'd stop by and check it out. I'll show you guys a jail cell in a second. It is closed because we are here a little bit early but apparently these palm trees on the property here these big ones are the only landscape still remaining. We don't we don't know if these are edible but I don't know I guess I'll taste it. Well they're sweet. They just don't taste like a dehydrated date dried date. She likes them. Across the street looks to be the original post office from back in the day. From the mid 1940s to 1985 this two cell strap steel jail was used to confine drunks and other unruly individuals for a night or two. The jail's original location was west of the Kelso depot on the far side of the Kelb Baker Road. The jail's cement pad foundation can still be found there. Well I think they should have more of these things in Las Vegas. People get pretty drunk and unruly in there. Wouldn't you say? I guess you could say we're kind of in the center of the preserve here. So the northwest over here you got cinder cones southwest that's where we stayed last night. Kelso dunes great boondocking over there. Northeast Joshua Tree Forest and then the southeast I guess there's caverns and a hole in the wall. Well that's pretty cool. I don't know this says 29 miles on a dirt and paved road so I don't know that sounds challenging. Watch out for the tortoises. Claire just found this full moon hike at the Kelso dunes. That's obviously for right now but call that number to make a reservation or for more information 760-252-6108. That sounds amazing a full moon hike. Currently we are just past the town of SEMA CIMA in the preserve and as you can see that's a big-ass Joshua tree and I don't have a lens to describe how many Joshua trees are in this area and up on the hillside but they start to get larger the higher an altitude that you go. Let me just describe that there is a hillside in front of me and for a solid five at least five miles it goes up the very large Joshua trees 10 15 20 25 feet tall they just go on and on and on like a real forest because sometimes you just get the small ones a little nubby ones but this is wild this is this cool so if you LA hipsters want a different route to Las Vegas you should drive through here it's really cool. Okay next stop a little bit north of the preserve is a town called Nipton established in 1905 and we were at the magical Nipton I don't even know what it is hotel saloon cafe trading posts etc let's go take a peek around this is like a hipsters paradise this giant thing behind me is shopping carts we got the teepees we got outside art we have a little spaceship Volkswagen bug what else there is a blue school bus over there in the distance all these little tiny homes there's a bathroom inside the greenhouse hammocks I'm telling you this is like a hipsters paradise out here I think it's kind of cool JD awesome could you tell me what exactly the Nipton trading post in a hotel is because I'm a little confused yeah so I mean we got a little bit of everything we have stuff from old like handmade baskets from like Davao and like these are all people that come in like locals we have retro shirts we're doing like a whole retro section we're actually hoping to maybe turn this back office into a hidden retro shop at one point all the crystals are handmade or not handmade but they are wrapped by like our personal staff like we like we have local artisans that come in and put their products out so we try to bring in like local goods as much as we can and this is more of the trading post yeah this is the trading post we have the cafe next door we have our own rules on tap all locally made we have like a whiskey barrel on right now which is super good highly recommend it and then beyond that as a hotel hotel 1905 it used to be the brothel actually really only three rooms back in 1930s and then in the 1950s I burnt down and they added those two extra rooms on in bathrooms and then I saw some tiny houses or some container houses I should say a cabin so we have cabins we also have the container homes we have three of those right now we're hoping to put a whole container village yeah stack them on top of each other make them really cool we also are putting in a vintage airstream and Spartan like park fun that'll be really cool and then I saw the teepees the outside art yeah so it seems like it's geared towards the the the burning man type person the Joshua tree on the weekend taking mushrooms or something person the person who may be like you said there's sound bath on the weekends and yoga sound baths and yoga retreats every other weekend through the high desert retreats those you pack out the town yeah everybody chills at the fire after this just talks about what the universe they came back from yeah yeah awesome yeah cool I'm gonna poke around a little bit so thanks so much for the information really appreciate it