Yep, same DR2 as TT, and RDC. Too busy these days to do much posting. It's hard to even find the time to keep up with what others are posting. Hopefully things will calm down a bit after the next few months and I can get back to my historical research on the high desert. Another interesting tidbit about Harper. When my Dad was in his teens, living in Barstow, he and his friends used to go out to Harper to shoot rabbits. Apparently they had a major rabbit problem out in the alfalfa fields. Anyhow, this was the mid-50's and the deal was that you would show up out there with a .22 and the store (owned by the ranch) would give you free ammo to go out and shoot rabbits. It was a common thing for people from Barstow out looking to hunt some rabbit. I believe the large building was built by the airplane manufacturer (can't remember off the top of my head whether it was Hughes or Lockheed, but I think it was Lockheed and Kelly Johnson from Skunkworks). I have it written down somewhere at home, but I'm traveling this week so not close to my notes.
They also operated some sort of dude ranch out there at some point, so it was a bit of a tourist destination for maybe a couple of years. At some point some shyster real estate agent started selling off parcels out there with promises of growth in that part of the desert, which obviously never occurred, and should have been obvious even then. Between 58 and the town, along Harper Lake Road are a bunch of sub-divided parcels, mostly 5-10 acres. If you pay attention as you drive/ride along the road, you will see very old dirt roads running off at 90 degree angles. Most only go out as far as the parcels went and dead end. They are pretty hard to see these days, but they are still there. The blow sand along the fence hides most of them.
that was my deer 
..............would've been yours had he been JUST a little quicker on he hooves........
) we enjoyed..........
