You might recognize this tyrannosaurus Rex from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. I had to fortune to pass him and neighboring brontosaurus (or whatever they're calling them these days). No giant, angry boyfriends chased me through the valley, fortunately.
The valley restaurateur built the dinosaurs as a roadside attraction. Eventually they came into possession of people who turned them into .... a Creationist museum, and use them to decry the fossil record. Fortunately on March 1, 2008, it was closed up and we had free rein of the beasts.
The pictures don't reveal the windstorm striking as we returned from Joshua Tree (correction: zoom in and you can see my hair whipped to one side). The valley has hundreds of windmills on the interstate's opposite side. We devoured date shakes (a local delicacy) before leaving the dinosaurs to their creationist masters.
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Those dinosaurs also played a pivotal role in "The Wizard," a movie about a young video-game prodigy that's infamous for getting almost everything about video games wrong. It's worth renting.
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