We camped Saturday night at an old KOA in Victorville about 250 miles from Paso Robles. The campground was drab, run down and next to the freeway. Hardly lived up to the advertisement, though the staff were friendly. If only someone would have picked up the litter, would have been an improvement. We were safe, off the road, had a chance to ride our bikes and do laundry so I shouldn't whine. The road took us pass vineyards, ranches, almond and pistachio groves, solar panel farms, oil rigs and green hills. The scenery changed to more desert like, Joshua trees, long stretches of road into the distance. We stopped near Lost Hills for a break and to buy local nuts.
Today, it was a short 100 miles to Catalina Spa Resort in Desert Hot Springs. Blue sky and 85*! On those rainy winter days in Port Orchard this winter, I was thinking about being here. We're going to park for 5 days. Ice cream social at 2 PM, pool and hot spring this evening, line dancing tomorrow morning at 8 AM. Sunshine for the next week and temps in the 80s! Yahoo!
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| Intersection near Lost Hills, CA where James Dean's life ended too soon.
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| More Joshua trees appearing. |
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| Hundreds of wind mills. |
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| San Bernardino Mountains |
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| Wind Farms |
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| Smog or Fog? |
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| Hard to see the ridge lines through the haze. |
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Full moon Saturday night in Victorville. Theses hills were covered in
loose rock. |
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The white in the distance is a line of parked airplanes in storage.
Boeing and airlines have planes here. |
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| More wind farms |
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| The clouds over one of the passes were hanging low. |
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| I was impressed with how all the orange trees were pruned flat tops. |
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| Rows and rows of almond trees in blossom. |
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| More oil fields. |
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| Could have been the Clampetts traveling along Route 66 |
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