Hi from the High Desert

[kathyth]

Welcome to the forum! Beautiful tortoise!!
Apple Valley and the high desert are wonderful!!!

 

[JohnnyB65]

I am curious though??? If you mind me asking---just let me know to mind my own business, no feelings will be hurt; you say you are afforded the opportunity to be in the desert for long periods of time alone for your employment....what is it that you do?
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Well I don’t want to give too many details about my job on the internet. I’ll just say I went to college and worked a long time of a very labor intense and unsatisfying job to get here. It is the job that I always wanted and spent a good portion of my life working toward. I love my job and there are a lot of people who would do anything to take it from me.

I get to enjoy climbing mountains in 6 ft of snow with snow shoes and walking through the desert among wild desert tortoises along with other wild life like coyotes, mountain lions, bob cats and bears. I cover all of Antelope Valley as well as the surrounding mountains and all of northern San Bernardino County all the way to the state line.

I even enjoy seeing rattlesnakes even though I did get bit in the back of my boot once with a very large Mohave Green that would have surely killed me if it would have been an inch higher on my boot. In fact I came across a rattle snake just today and I tried to get a photo of it, but it disappeared into the brush before I could get my camera out of my pocket. I didn’t have my snake boots on so I left it alone.

I also run across people in the desert, some are very colorful characters as well as some pretty scary ones that add a little excitement to my job. I have been pretty lucky because there are murders all the time in the desert.

I put in many hours behind the windshield and I prefer to work alone because you have to have the right chemistry to be cooped up with someone that long. I had a coworker/partner once and I admit that we had a lot of fun, but she got offered a promotion and took it. I’m happy to be alone as long as I have a cell phone and can go home to my family each night.

 

[pam]

Welcome

 

[ascott]

Sure sounds like a Fish & Game Warden or State Trooper to me......but no need to pry any further about that subject..... Having fun with it was fun enough.....lol...

And those Mojave Greens are tenacious buggers for sure.....well, unless you stumble across them before they charge up with the sun....