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| Friday March 9th and we are on route to Tucson Arizona via two overnight stops at Barstow and Ehrenberg...... We head back up into the Tehachapi Mountains on a nice spring morning...the rolling hills are very reminiscent of parts of UK.... |
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| It's a pleasant drive...this is a major route but fairly quiet this morning... |
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| We were fascinated by the different styles of wind turbines having only ever seen the "standard" ones and there were plenty of those too...these have different types of "poles" and much smaller blades... |
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| The Tehachapi mountain range is on the edge of The Mojave Desert...a huge wind farm area....we have only ever seen more in Desert Hot Springs/Palm Springs, California... |
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| The Mojave airport was opened in 1935 to serve the gold and silver mining industry, it is now an industrial park for more than 60 companies engaged in flight development and a storage and reclamation area for commercial airlines....it is one of many airplane "boneyards" in California & Arizona..... |
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| I have included this pic as a bit of nostalgia from our visit to Death Valley and the Borax mines and to once again marvel at the distances the early settlers travelled in such primitive conditions.... |
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| Saturday 10th March.... We stayed overnight in Barstow (route 66) sadly this visit not enjoying the delicious pecan pie at Peggy Sue's....The Colorado River and farewell California hello Arizona... It was a wet drive to Ehrenberg today even on the 110 miles across the Mojave Desert...this road trip has had it's share of rain but at least we are not suffering the snow and disruption back in Blighty... |
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| Sunday 11th March and a beautiful blue sky morning after yesterdays rain... We are heading east on I-10 to Tucson, a long but straightforward drive to Desert Trails RV Park and our home for the next two weeks.....we stayed here in November...quirky and haphazard but a very friendly "snowbird" park... Yorkieman once again does a great job of backing into our spot then we head over to meet up with camping buddies John and Elaine for a welcomed sundowner.... Monday 12th... Our host Pericles has a Monday morning information talk, very entertaining and informative and coffee and donuts !!!! |
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| We've had some fabulous sunsets at Desert Trails RV Park.... |
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| Time to hike the trails straight from the RV Park... I love this pair of "dancing" saguaro.... |
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| Eagle eyed Yorkieman saw Wile e Coyote as we were hiking the trails from our RV Park......this pic on telephoto and taken by himself as even when he pointed out the spot I still didn't see him !!!! More news from the desert soon from... Yorkieman and Mrs Blogger..... |
Its all that searching for golf balls in the rough - you get used to seeing things others cant see! This is the second mention of donuts - is it becoming a theme of this trip?
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Yorkieman says cheeky blighter or a word similar...
DeleteWell when there are no watertoweps then donuts will have to do !!!
M & S xx