Photo page of the simple, frugal life at Rancho Costa Nada

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Simple and dirt cheap desert living at Rancho Costa Nada

Life at the Rancho.  A few snaps taken at or near Phil Garlington's Rancho Costa Nada in the Smoke Tree Valley, Imperial County, California.

One of the 8' x 8' desert bum boxes

Boy Tuke with a pet scorpion

Yup. The Mojave

The mad former Marine running the gunnery range

What three bills will buy.

The free trailer set on the BLM's long term visitors area

Two chairs for company, three for society

The Blythe slammer

Brittle Bush.

The Hobo at home

Start of a sleeping cube

Typical road

Meth bust...duh!

Hobo loading pallets

Rocks, or sand, or washes

Smoke Valley matriarch

The Rancho rifle range

Looks like maybe the Old Woman Mts

Creosote, palo verde, catclaw, smoke tree, cactus, and rattlers.

Dusty trail to the Rancho

Must be Arizona

What an idiot

Arizona for sure

Couple of coots

Ebb tide at the Rancho

Pistol range

The homesteader out on the range

Resupply

Dinner at eight

Spike camp