Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs

Our day started slowly yesterday as we took advantage of our first full day off since early last week. We had to go to the post office in Borrego Springs, so we planned a short side trip to an area on the edge of town. It is called Galleta Meadows, and it is a vast area of private land that is open to the public. An artist/welder, named Ricardo Breceda created giant animal sculptures that are models of creatures that inhabited the area about three million years ago. There were dirt (sand) roads carved throughout so that people could travel around the entire area looking at these animals. We took the following pictures that give you an idea of the effect: starting with a horse being attacked by some form of prehistoric lion:

Although just a small area of the total, the following picture shows these animals scattered throughout the huge meadow:

Finally, we took this shot of a huge prehistoric bird that was flying into a nest to feed her young:

The artist must have spent many years building these animals as there were probably more than 50 in the area. A very interesting stop.

We were invited to Mike and Sharon's rig in the evening for some dessert and conversation. They asked us if we would cover for them today as they wanted to get away for a day to recover from the hectic weekend. We agreed, so we are working today from 8 to who-knows-when. They had to get approval from Jeff, the owner, since this would mean paying us for the extra time. We suppose he agreed.

As Mike stopped by this morning to give us the cell phone for the office, he asked us to think about a schedule that would give him and Sharon a couple days off, and come up with a pay rate that we would consider for the extra office time. He might have a tough sell ahead with Jeff since we know how tight he is. Anyway, it appears that they know that we could have a problem staying here if we don't start getting money for hours worked. We'll see how that goes...