10/18/05
Where do you live now? Arkansas
How many years were you in the desert? 8 years
Are you willing to help with pictures? No
Are you willing to help with stories? Yes
Comments:
Wow I am shocked that RIDGECREST is still alive my family moved when China Lake was closing apart of the plant man I miss those Times!
10/12/05
Where do you live now? Camarillo, CA
How many years were you in the desert? 6+ (Mostly 1971-77. My folks are still there.)
Are you willing to help with pictures? Yes
Are you willing to help with stories? Yes
Comments:
I have very much enjoyed looking through this site. I am really glad you have put it together and continue to grow it. Thank you for all your hard work. This is terrific!
10/09/05
Where do you live now? Trenton, NJ
How many years were you in the desert? Never lived there
Are you willing to help with pictures? You don't want my pictures
Are you willing to help with stories? I don't have any desert stories
Comments:
Good site loaded with your history. I'm glad I dropped in. Tim
10/01/05
Where do you live now? Highlands of Scotland
How many years were you in the desert? 6
Are you willing to help with pictures? no
Are you willing to help with stories? no
Comments:
Lived there for 6 years total. Attended Groves Elementary, Murray Jr High and Burroughs High during this time. Left there and joined the British Army in 1984. Now living in the north of Scotland. Will go back for a visit one day. Anyone who knows me please feel free to drop me an email.
09/26/05
Where do you live now? Peralta, NM
How many years were you in the desert? 10+ China Lake, 20 in NM
Are you willing to help with pictures? Don't have many
Are you willing to help with stories? Maybe...
Comments:
Like many comments I have read, I still refer to China Lake as where I grew up. I actually completed jr. high and high school in Florida.
It amazes me how many of the comments of this site could have been yanked right out of my own memories. Roaming the desert all day catching lizards, snakes, and anything else unlucky enough to cross our paths. Riding dirt bikes in the desert and up past Manache (sp?) / Kennedy Meadows. Before we all got motorcycles, we used to push or home built bmx bikes up B Mountain and then ride down like bats out of hell. My dad (Merle Ross) fabricated some mono-shock bikes from old motorcycle shocks and bicycles recycled from the land fill back in the very early '70's, and we fooled around with extreme gear reductions on bicycles decades before the current full suspension mountain bike became a commercial reality.
When I think about growing up in China Lake, I get sad for my own 5 year old son. Don't know if it is the change in times, my own attitudes, or blissful ignorance as a child, but I would never dream of letting my son take off and disappear into the deserts alone or with a fried around Peralta/Albuquerque where I now live. Is this still a reality today in China Lake and Ridgecrest?
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