Road Trip

Hi one and all
Tuesday started the day out with
another boring sunrise. LOL

After breakfast we picked up
Bill and Anne, OLP friends from British Columbia, at their RV park
and went on a road trip
Plan was Salton Sea in Southern California
Drove by it and up to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Beautiful desert park and wonderful Visitors Center

You really have to like the desert ecosystem to enjoy this park

and I highly recommend visiting only in the winter.

I am betting it gets a bit toasty during the summer

but, some like it hot!

After we went into Borrego Springs for lunch
Thanks again Bill and Anne
Then on down the highway to

The metal creatures were all created by a local artist
and are spread up and down the highway in the desert
neat part is some you have to drive out to see.
Lefty really liked the camels and tried to bite one
Was hoping that would make him a bit shyer about biting

Here are some of the others and by no means all of them.

And the most noted one

The 300+ foot dragon that crosses under the road.
Here Bill and Anne show the dragon really is tame.

And on our way back out of the park
we stopped and photographed the Salton Sea

Yes, that thin blue line just below the distant mountain range is the Salton Sea.
We are about 15 miles from the sea at this point.
Continued on and drove down to the water, 235 feet BELOW sea level
Just a couple of feet higher than Death Valley
However if you checked at the current lake level it may be lower.
I don't know how they figured a lake that varies more than 30 feet.

This is the beach from the jetty along the boat ramp
the boat ramp you could not use because it is above the water level.
The white is not sand, it is salt, Salton Sea is 3 times saltier than the ocean.

Long drive back and was tired
and worth every bit of the drive.
I have to say that without Bill and Anne's
direction to the desert park, it would have been a bust.
Millie and I would have been very disappointed
had we made that long trip and only looked at the big lake
that smelled a bit like fish.
So Bill and Anne saved the day and are
wonderful company for a road trip.
Hoping to come back next year
and spend some more time wandering around So. Cal.
Great to have fun guide service.

Today, yes I kind of skipped a day,
Millie spent some time in the pool and spa.
Got laundry caught up and relaxed for a while in the sun with
me and the fur kids.
Got some trailer duties done and started getting ready to move.
Tomorrow we head to Henderson, NV
to visit with Shawn and Mark.
Shawn is Marie's oldest daughter and would be my step-sister.

Hugs to all and we're back on the road again.
Tom and Millie