We left Kate’s house this morning around 10:30am wearing summer clothes again. (85 degrees). I hated to leave, but we must press on to find the BBOY. Last night our storage facility called to say the N. Cal. storm flooded our storage unit and we needed to come right now and open it to check for damage and to dry things out. Hmmm, that's a problem we're a long ways away. Short story, we found out this AM our unit did NOT get flooded. Whew!!
Bc came down with some sort of galloping crud. He has a snittery nose. But he is feeling better today after his scotch medicine last night.
Bc drove through So Cal to Hwy 395 which is boring at first, but beautiful at last. While watching all the traffic maze and people the Eagle’s song came on “Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind. Everything, all the time.” If that doesn’t describe So Cal, I don’t know what does. Crazy!
We passed through Adelante which had a parking lot and no buildings. But, the porto potty and trash bin were tagged. Thank goodness we know which gang owns those!
As we passed through the cutoffs for Ridgecrest, California City and Edwards Air Force Base I thought of my brother, Buddy. (Howard). He used to fly his glider out there. He still holds the youth altitude record for California. 34,000 feet. Yup, glider, no engine, up there really high….
We passed through 4 corners. Here’s a picture of the sign offering exceptional coffee. Let’s hope their coffee is better than their spelling.
We saw the Carroll Market. We passed Manzanar which housed 110,000 Japanese during WWII.
We passed by a place with hundreds of acres of solar panels, the Mojave Desert on the right and the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sorry we didn't get better pix but it was huge.
At 3:12pm today we turned our map to the page we started at on September 7th. “Wherever you go, there you are.”
The scenery here is beautiful. So much nicer than the Mojave Desert! We have seen all sorts of weather, including snow today. Here’s Bart with the snow.
When I was a teenager we used to go camping at Mammoth Lakes. I hated it. 26 foot trailer, 5 of us, nothing to do except fish, no bathroom and of course, the whole being 13-15 years old thing going on. Now that I think about it, it must have been 10 times worse for my mom. Think about all that and having to do cooking, laundry and whatever else for the 5 of us. Not my idea of a vacation. Maybe that’s why mom likes cruises now! (She’s in Turkey as we blog.)
It is now 48 degrees, going down to 36 degrees, which means we need to change to the “cold weather” clothes before we go to dinner.
No BBOY, but we are still looking! Take care, bc and gc.
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