Today was a travel day. We departed Boulder Creek RV Park in Lone Pine and continued our travel south. Right outside the park, we turned south on US-395 and dropped down into the desert. Most of the road down into the desert has great scenery of desert between two impressive mountain ranges. From Lone Pine south to Inyokern the highway is great; two lanes each way, relatively flat and well paved. From Inyokern south to Adelanto the road is single lane each way, no divider, substantial uphill grades, slow unpassable trucks and rotten paving.
We continued on 395 all the way to Hesperia which is a foreign word meaning Bleak Wasteland. There was not much to see on the way to Desert Willow RV Resort, our RV spot for tonight and tomorrow. The park has a pool, many RV spaces, full hookups including cable TV, wi-fi and good roads. There was a problem with the cable TV once I got it hooked up.
It was over 90 degrees when we were setting up but I took the time out in the inferno to hook my cable to their connection and went inside to set up the TV. I input commands to use the cable TV signal as the source and to program all available channels. The TV started chugging along, programming channels and after a while I noticed that it had programmed 486 digital TV channels and two cable channels. Then the TV went through a long sequence of removing all the scrambled channels from the programming. Finally, after about 20 minutes, the TV put up a dialog box that stated the TV had finished and we had 2 cable and 1 digital TV channels. One of the cable channels was a green screen. The other was a purple screen. The digital channel was an actual TV picture but it was very tiny, filling up about 1/8 of my TV’s screen. I went back into Hell outside and hooked up the Dish.