Amboy & Amboy Crater

The remarkably picturesque Amboy Crater Volcanic Cinder Cone off of Highway 66, a forty-five minute drive northeast of Twentynine Palms, rises 256 feet above the Mojave Desert floor. A moderate hike trail leads up to the top for a majestic 360 view. The 1/2 day walk to the top and back requires good sturdy footware but is an inspiring picnic location. Be sure to bring water and observe the rules of the desert. The town of Amboy is a fascinating old Route 66 classic stop in the Mojave.
  
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California's Travelers See Light Show In Amboy

Travelers on Amboy Road in California's Bullion Mountains stop and stare at the light display swirling across the sky, which is what Helena Bongartz wants.

For a little more than a year, Bongartz has been putting on the ethereal show for anyone driving, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., reported. Every weekend she makes the 30-mile trek -- weather permitting -- from her Wonder Valley home to an abandoned house near Bristol Lake so she can synchronize projectors that cast the colors, patterns and abstract imagery on the outside of the building.

A photographer, Bongartz said she began creating sculptures from pieces of large plastic bottles. She photographed them then created animated videos that, generations later, became the abstracts projected on the building, the newspaper said.

Source: Post Chronicle

Tags: California | Lightshow

Labels: Art