Why were we going there?
Well, a friend of mine sent me a link to a site about the booth. It was from two guys who heard about this booth in the middle of nowhere, and they tried to call it, and it was always busy. So, they decided to drive a few hundred miles to find it and hang it up!
I thought it was a novel idea, and the more I read their pages, the more fascinated I became with my own adventure out to the booth.
After talking about it with my friend, Dharmabug, we decided maybe we could promote his website, Coffee and a Sandwich, with my adventure out there. So I made up cards to leave there at the booth, kind of like a souvenir of being there, for the people who braved an adventure like myself. Proof of your visit as it were.
And we also decided to bring coffee and sandwiches for anybody who might be there or show up while we were there.
We also thought that it would be cool if a friends band would go and do an acoustic set out there.
So the plan was laid out, August 21, 1999 would be the day.
Dharmabug contacted a few local papers and this adventure was highlighted in a story that the San Bernardino County Sun Newspaper was doing anyway on the booth. Talk about good timing!
And to make an already long answer to "Why were we going there" shorter, "Why not?"