Have been jonesing to be in a beautiful space as the sun rises so I loaded up the dogs and a couple of cameras to be in a place called Wee Thump to catch that early pre-morning light as it illuminated Joshua trees. I left Vegas around 3:30am, headed south on I 15 to the Nipton exit. A few minutes later I reached the off road trail I wanted - when I remembered that this is monsoon season and it had rained here the day before so the road would probably be washed out. I wasn't disappointed but I found a great potential spot in the pre-dawn darkness and settled down to wait because I was roughly 45 minutes early.