Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the Mojave.

And I heard that Joshua Tree National Park had nearly 3 million visitors in 2017,

and it might be more next year.

It's good to see so many of you exploring the desert, getting Chous stuck in your ankles, getting out there

and falling in love with this landscape, this bio region.

But if you are dismayed at the traffic jams and the ruckus, we have many more millions of acres of beautiful wild desert landscapes like out of a dream.

Places where you're the only car on the road, the only hiker on the trail.

Try Mojave Trail's National Monument.

You get to drive historic Route 66 in the process. You can walk

into an old volcano mouth. You can see big horn sheep. You can watch the freight trains

rumble by Kelso and Afton Canyon. lots of quiet areas in Death Valley, or the Providence

mountains, or the Castle Mountains. And when you have seen all of the Mojave, which nobody

has ever done, nobody has ever seen all of the Mojave, then you've got the great basin to explore you've got

the sonoran desert on both sides of the border slick rock and canyon country in utah

shiprock and monument valley on the navajo lands and you know there's a bar a bar in the desert of Arizona that has only opened one week a year.

One week a year.

I had somebody planning to do a story about that in the Desert Oracle.

But none of us are very reliable.

We try and we don't always succeed and regardless regardless

of success or failure or more likely something in between something in between I

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