Found an adventure in the desert.

I got my tire plugged at a little Mexican shop, after the first tire shop told me I couldn't get it patched and had to buy a completely new tire. After that, Heavy D and I set out to hike Lava Butte, but got distracted.  We took a few small walks in between driving a gravel road trying to find a trail head.  As we wandered up a dry arroyo we saw shot up metal, an old record player, tires, and many old car parts.  We picked gypsum crystals up off the ground.  Down in the dry stream beds were many old car parts.  We figured this road, outside the big Sin City, was a popular place to bury bodies.  After that we stopped and sat up on a knoll, looking out across the barren mountains towards the grand canyon and Lake Mead.  Down over the hill was a car so rusted it was the color of the red dirt around it.  I thought about pushing my car over the hill and imagined it in 100 years looking like that artifact that air and water had rusted so that it was like a part of the landscape.  Broken glass and bullet shells everywhere, we felt like we were in a lawless land where you had to look out for armed rebels.  A place where your car was not safe left alone.  A land on the outskirts of a rigid and controlled city where only spirits and the occasional jackrabbit roamed.  At the other end of the road, we came across a man with an 18-wheeler stuck in the sand.  He had no way to get help, so we took down some info and called a tow truck for him at a CVS.  We hope he is out of there because because the desert is very cold at night, and he was at least a mile from anything.  A little ways on Hollywood Blv. and we arrived at another skate park.  The Hollywood park was part of a recreation center, and cost 3 dollars to skate and 4 if you need a helmet(required).  Two kids who worked there, Alex and Chris, were very talkative and let us look at the features.  I learned that every Thursday they have competitions there on the stair sets.  Along with the street skating this park offered numerous bowls, and a full pipe.  At last, time for In n Out, then home.