Koyaanisqatsi II -- A Road Trip page 2 We finally got to leave Highway 5, and now it felt like our trip had really begun. We stopped at a seedy greasy spoon with a few seedy greasy customers drinking coffee or doing drug deals (it was hard to tell which) but a real chirpy waitress. Barbara had a few coffees and Jason and Lucy had a bite to eat. Back into the car to cross the Mojave Desert. We passed by Edwards Air Force Base just before dawn and decided it was a very strange place and that the government must have its UFO and alien information and experimentation centers there. There was one huge work site that may have passed as a power station or quarry of some sort, but the high-tech equipment and lighting systems plus the fact we'd been driving all night in various states of disrepair convinced us that it was a UFO excavation site. Sunrise over the desert was a thing worth seeing as the blackness began to change into many subtle colors, then eventually settle into a vague arrangement of tans. We stopped at a grocery store around Hinckley to regroup. Most of the other customers looked like they were former members of the Manson Family. We headed east. We decided it was time for our first stop at a Point of Interest. The sign said "Early Man Site - Next Right" and that sounded just like what we looking for. We followed the signs and passed a one-pickup-truck-town and went on towards the local dump site. At last we came to the signpost for "Early Man Site" which also posted its hours -- Open at 8:00 AM. Although it felt like the day was half-over, it was only 6:30 AM. We agonized over it, but eventually agreed to skip it. Stopping for gas was a highlight of the whole trip: REALLY manky restrooms, more Manson rejects hanging around, and a septic tank truck with a burly scuzzy dude driving around with big-letter advertising on 3 sides: MOM'S PORTABLE TOILETS. Jason got a lot of bad vibes there; Barbara agreed it was a bad scene but thought the vibes were friendly. Lucy was excited our trip had begun. click it Sunshine came softly through my window today I could have tripped out easy but I changed my ways

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