Back in my Cherokee, Ron and I consulted the Google Maps satellite photograph again. After much discussion, we picked out the dirt road that seemed most likely to take us to the Opal deposit, and I started the engine.
The road we we wanted was roughly twelve miles South of Barstow. Engaging my four-wheel drive, I drove us along approximately five miles of alternately sandy and rocky trail- which was mostly level. Incredibly, the scenery did start to resemble that shown in the satellite images (fortunately, I still had cellular telephone coverage out there), and the rock formations began to look, well....familiar. "That's it!" exclaimed Ron, as he pointed to our left.
I snapped my head around, and to my amazement, the rock formation looked exactly like the one in the photograph!
To be continued...
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