Because we were 800 miles from home, we had planned to take a day and a half to drive back, but we are still getting up early, and there is really no place in California between the south east border and San Francisco that we want to spend a night if we don't have to, so we hopped in the car at 7:30am and just drove. If we hadn't stopped for sushi near home, we would have made it in 12 hours.
The scenery across the southern part of the trip is all pretty stark, and it just gets more dreary as you go west. Suffice it to say that I am not a big desert fan, a short visit is interesting, but give me greenery any day. We did get to see two of the airplane mothball fleets, one in Arizona, the other at Tehachapi, CA. There was also a huge wind farm at Tehachapi that looked kind of like a white-haired and sparse crewcut across the hills.
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| Western Arizona scenery |
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| Happy sign -- back in our home state |
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| Eastern California -- hard to tell its not Arizona |
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| Long straight road thru the desert |
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| Plane heaven in Tehachapi. Windmills in the background. |
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| Wind farm, creating a crewcut on the hill |
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| Sun setting in the bay area as we near home. |
We had a wonderful time, and I might actually consider another cross-country drive, but it sure feels good to get home!
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