Kelly visits the Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree. Purifoy's outdoor assemblages include found items from piles of discarded clutter spread out across this dry landscape. Where others saw junk, Noah saw poetry. An old friend of Noah's, Pat Brunty, walks the grounds with Kelly while sharing personal stories. Her next stop is Pioneertown, a quirky desert community with a Main Street built as an 1880s Old West motion picture set. She spends time with Gwen Barker and Eric Dean, co-owners of Rim Rock Ranch, to talk about the desert and preservation, and rides some horses.
“It's unique in the sense that you can see mountains in every direction, or boulder stacks, or mesas, and you can literally see the horizon no matter which direction you look, and I think that that's really grounding for a person. It makes you feel as insignificant as you are."
-Eric Dean of Rimrock Ranch episode 6 of California Trip with Kelly Lynch
