Ran into the notorious California freeway traffic as we came through San Bernardino. MUCH construction everywhere and no one seems to slow down for it. We followed the 55 MPH signs and we were a hazard to everyone else who blew past us at 70 or 80. Fortunately this was only 20-30 minutes of our day but it was fairly hair-raising. One doesn't stop our rig in the space you can stop a car. The new Garmin GPS performed perfectly and is both nicer and faster than the old one. In the past month, we've been in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Diego. I am looking forward to smaller towns with less traffic for a while.
As we were driving north of San Bernardino, I happened to look west. There were seven skydivers floating gently to earth. I still don't understand why people want to jump out of perfectly good airplanes but apparently this is a big area for it.
We are at Hesperia, CA and have a lovely view of the snow on the mountains southwest (?) of us. Weather is absolutely beautiful but it does get cold here at night. Altitude is 3,500 feet more or less.
Spring is beginning here in the high desert. Beautiful wild flowers. The park has been here since '88 so the landscaping is mature and beautiful. Lots of things I am unfamiliar with. (I think the tree below is a Joshua tree.) There is a sizable bank of solar panels to the left and behind the park. I don't know whether they belong to the park or some other entity.
The earthquake in Orange County Friday actually rocked our rig here in Hesperia. I couldn't figure it out but Mike lived in CA years ago and knew what it was. I think we are happy to be out of the Los Angeles basin.
Mike went out to get burgers for us. I keep forgetting about altitude changes, with messy results. The last time the ketchup bottle was open we were almost at sea level. When I opened it here, ketchup everywhere. Doh.
We are packing up today/tomorrow to head for Death Valley so I will close this post and open a new one there.
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