{"id":4028,"date":"2025-07-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:26:58","slug":"surprising-oasis-on-the-road-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4028","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Oasis On The Road To Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roys-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4023\" style=\"width:479px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roys-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roys-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roys-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Roys.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>An Oasis on the Road to Nowhere<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visitamboy.com\" title=\"\">Roys Motel and Cafe<\/a> is one of the few stops on the way from Las Vegas to Twentynine Palms via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/moja\/index.htm\" title=\"\">Mojave National Preserve<\/a>. There is not much here, gas, food, and some souvenirs to prove you were there. I guess if you are a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/darksitefinder.com\/map\/?i=\/%232\/19.1\/-24.6#google_vignette\" title=\"\">dark skies <\/a>and night photography, this is the motel to stay at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roys Motel and Cafe: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/r9oLiVnmtpYukUvV9\" title=\"\">34.558463\u00b0 -115.743506\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roys Motel and Cafe is one of the few stops on the way from Las&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539],"tags":[853,752,900,899,167,618,907,753,905],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-california","tag-image","tag-las-vegas","tag-mojave-national-preserve","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-roys-motel-and-cafe","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-twentynine-palms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}