 It's almost 300 miles from Mojave National Preserve to Phoenix. That's 300 miles that I really did not care to drive, after putting in 500 yesterday. The route looks like this:
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 Fortunately my sat-nav has a "shortest distance" mode that was able to suggest a tempting shortcut, a route that knocked almost 100 miles of distance off the trip. That's too much distance to ignore. On the map, the shortcut follows "Alamo Road", and it looks like this:
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Unfortunately, "Alamo Road" turned out to be this:
So while it was fun to involuntarily discover my car's latent rally abilities, and it was extremely beautiful, and it got me thinking seriously about how long I could survive in the desert with the crap in my car (I had bought a lighter earlier that day), the shortcut was definitely not faster. Good thing I'm not on a schedule.
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