Descansos
A descansco is a roadside cross or memorial, placed at the site of a violent and unexpected death. I have interpreted the definition a bit loosely for this gallery, as I have chosen to include memorials I have found on my off road adventures in the Mojave Desert, and it's likely that not all deaths were violent and unexpected, although many were during the outlaw days of the West. Some were military pilots who crashed to their death in the Mojave Desert. Others sites are not just memorials, but the actual grave, often times unmarked. Finally, a few are the graves of beloved pets that I found at abandoned mining camps.
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