list no. 14 :: 33 hours

I'm still recovering from our whirlwind tour of the desert. 

1. 1:45am is too early to get up to start a day. 
2. Although I went to bed at 7:30pm so technically, I had enough sleep. 
3. We made good time to Salton Sea because no one in their right mind is driving on the road at that time of the morning. 
4. It is really, really dark in the desert.
5. The Starbucks outside of Salton Sea doesn't open until 6:30am, which is harsh when you've been driving in the wee hours of the morning and you arrive outside its doors at 5:40am.
6. We had the wrong address for the Salton Sea Marina so we shot the sunrise in a random location along the sea.
7. I had issues with my feather Impossible film.
8. I also shot an entire roll, 36 frames, of phantom film. 
9. Yes, I forgot to load my camera,
10. and no, this isn't the first time its happened.
11. I tell you those photos were special and I didn't really care about no. 7 above, because I knew the roll of ghost film was great.
12. At one point I considered there might not be film in the camera from the sound when the film was supposedly advancing, but I didn't want to risk exposing the film. 
13. Now I have a fail safe method to know when the camera is loaded or not: Washi Tape.
14. If there's a square on the back of the camera, there's film inside. If there isn't, than it's empty.
15. Putting the little square from the film box top on the camera doesn't help because I've forgotten that there's nothing inside, thinking that little square meant the camera was loaded.
16. I digress.
17. There's still a lot of great abandoned shit out on Salton Sea, definitely worth a trip out there if you're so inclined.
18. We drove to Joshua Tree, but I didn't realize that the end nearest to Palm Springs isn't the part to see the sights, so we had to scratch that from the itinerary.
19. The Saguaro is all I expected and more.
20. Totally worth the extra $ for the ground floor, patio room.
21. The pool is divine.
22. So are the grounds. 
23. I've got a crush on Palm Springs and the surrounding areas.
24. I can't wait to go back.