28th Annual Rendezvous of the Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association

Goffs, CA

2007 October 5-8


Pictures © 2007 Allen W. Shafter
  • Highway South to Twenty-Nine Palms and Joshua Tree National Park (taken near Interstate 40)
  • Our campsite at the MDHCA Cultural Center in Goffs, CA. The campsites are decorated with interesting motifs such as these train signals
  • "Bert" the camel touring the Goffs Cultural Center facilities
  • Bert again...
  • And again...
  • Pre-dinner musical entertainment
  • Brian (right) with his two new friends
  • A view down the main campsite road
  • Dinner at the "Flywheel Cafe"
  • Brian and his friend in a race...
  • Brian posing by an old car...
  • Brian next to a large pully wheel
  • Heading North on Landfair Road (Ivanpah-Goffs Rd) into the Mojave National Preserve
  • Looking East on the Mojave Rd (near intersection with Landfair Rd)
  • My Jeep on the Mojave Rd... Someday it'll traverse the whole thing...
  • Posing with my car on the Mojave Rd...
  • One of the roughly 60 trains per day that pass by Goffs on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe mainline
  • Looking West on a lonely stretch of Route 66 outside of Essex, CA
  • A strange "Shoe Tree" near Amboy on Rt 66
  • Brian posing near the famous "Roy's" in Amboy
  • Amboy volcanic cinder cone