And the road goes on forever. Our reward for crossing 500 miles: we get to crawl down into the desert near Lancaster, CA. I thought that I knew hot but this is going to be unreal. We are currently at Hiker Town a place run by trail angels where you can wash your clothes, do some laundry, and eat some food while we wait on the sun to set over Antelope Valley. We are entering the valley which is one of the hottest sections that we will encounter and we are hoping to turn nocturnal. We have 16 miles to our next water source and for the moment we are clean, we have clean clothes, and we are heading out soon. Next stop the vacation paradise also known as Mojave, CA.