Known as the home of Spike and as the Paris of the Western World, Needles is also home to a historic railway station.
If you haven't been busted for bringing bug-laden fruit into California, El Garces makes for a good stop because it hearkens back to when California was actually good. See this for the history.
I visited it on a sleepy Sunday morning and there weren't many others around so I didn't go full-on Huell. Plus, all I had was a cell phone camera. With a film camera or even an electronic camera and a tripod around sunset I could have gotten much better shots, or at least so I tell myself.
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