Very dangerous to be hiking or camping out in the wilds alone as anything can happen.

Cell phone coverage is oftentimes weak or non-existent and lone sociopaths will often prey on unaccompanied women.

Hopefully you are fully registered and adequately skilled to carry a firearm as rattlesnakes often disguise themselves as people.

Stay safe and enjoy the outdoors.

> lone sociopaths will often prey on unaccompanied women.

This can occur anywhere including the inner cities, suburbs, and at social gatherings where people are somewhat acquainted with one another.

The desert can be especially dangerous because of its remoteness and natural allure to roving vagabond types like Charles Manson.

Since your blog is food themed, have you tried any of the native plants?

When we hiked through the Sonora desert in Mexico, our guide showed us various edible indigenous plants, one of which was a cactus that peyote comes from.

We earned how to leach the peyote buttons which are quite bitter and nauseous and incorporate them into a drink with Ocean Spray cranberry juice.

We now serve this mind invigorating all-natural and non-alcoholic beverage at our deck parties in Woodside but warn guests that they will be perceiving imageries they never thought possible.

"Since your blog is food themed, "

The food courts at the various desert-based Indian casinos can be quite good providing you don't order the seafood.

You chose the right time for a desert trek as it can get quite hot during the summer months.

As for the Manson experience, a visit to Barstow will fulfill those anticipations as there are many transients living in decrepit motorhomes and RVs scattered about the region.

"In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain."

^ Except for some rattlers and spiders.

Did you have an opportunity to pass through Twentynine Palms?

It is gradually becoming a modern city and has many of the fast food restaurants that one can patronize in the SF Bay Area

We moved there from Redwood City after filing for bankruptcy.

Here is a pic of our current home.
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Real estate dollars go a lot further compared to the midpeninsula.

'Desert Solitaire' by Edward Abbey is an interesting non-fiction work about the inherent mysteries of the American desert.

Other deserts around the world (e.g. the Sahara in Africa and the Gobi in Mongolia) lack a certain allure as does the Arab desert except for those primarily interested in joining the French Foreign Legion, digging prehistoric fossils, or riding a camel.

@Here is a pic of our current home.

That would be a $2M+ house in Palo Alto.

The desert has a very spiritual vibe which might explain why so many Native Americans chose to live there.

Sedona AZ is another noteworthy and spiritual desert site that white developers exploited for the tourism trade.