We got up nice and late and headed to the McDonald’s for a cheap breakfast. Mojave is a bit run down but probably a more realistic view of America than the little tourist towns we’d previously been at.

There is a bus for $3 to Tehachapi so we headed over so that Freddy could collect his package from the post office and I could do some shopping that the ‘Family Dollar’ store in Mojave couldn’t satisfy.

We met the Chairman and Little Red, and I finally caught up with Mild Sauce again. Also two new hikers:

After a while headed to the Best Western where Freddy was attempting to upload multi gigabytes of video. Met Second Chance again, he is likely to enter the Sierra with us if things tie up correctly.

A late lunch sandwich at the German Bakery was excellent, and we headed back to Mojave to eat the jumbo pack of strawberries I’d bought, with yoghurt.