I like to start a blog with an amusing encounter. After breakfast in a place near Lake Isabella we went to fill up with gas and a shot rang out - I went to explore the Goafer Busters!
Had I not twisted Bob's arm to take Rout 66 he would have showed me Sedona which has massive red-rock formations and is considered at least as beautiful as many national parks. It is the "Monte Carlo" of the US with many wealthy retirees choosing to live here.
The average age of Sedona's population of 10,000 is 50.The city's airport, high on a mesa, is situated at an elevation of more than 4,800 feet and airplanes zoom off the end of the runway.
We meet some Italians who Loved Sedona and found the amount of "homeless" people in San Francisco very hard to understand.
As we drove through Death Valley we had some great views.
We overnight in a little town called Kern, beside Lake Isabella. The pool in the hotel is very cold!
As we leave the next day i encounter the "Goafer Busters" shown above.
We stop beside the lake where the water levels are very low and there are no boats to be seen - there has been hardly any rain in the last few months - this has now become a crisis for what is a tourism based local economy.
Lake Isabella, California
Bob on the water crisis.
As we get closer to Bakersfield City we come across an artificial river carrying water South from Sacramento to Los Angeles
The place where we stop to talk about the aquaduct has evidence underfoot of snakes in the grass!
We arrive in Bakersfield where we go to the Applestore and I buy a cable to connect the Iphone to the Ipad - solves a storage problem for the videos. We cant find a decent hotel - so we drive another 85 miles! - to Santa Maria - tomorrow back to the Pacific Coast and Santa Barbara!
On my way to breakfast - at 8 AM - in the Motel, I meet this early morning banjo player.
For our mid trip reflections
360 miles Total Miles to Date 2,541
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