A patriotic shed just outside Ramona
Route 78: A Drive Around the San Diego Mountains, California, US - 9th August 2005
It's the third working trip to San Diego this year, and it's a very short one, but after a few hours of meetings at head office, Nosher still manages to head out in a convertible v-8 Mustang to tour the mountains of San Diego, in the Cleveland National Forest and the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. The route (after an unintended wander around the myriad seemingly-identical freeways in order to get started) takes in Routes 78 and 79, a few minor roads and a return back up Interstate 8 - a total of around 120 miles. There's a song, "It Never Rains in California", which in this case was not entirely correct, as just the other side of the small town of Julian, CA, menacing and scary clouds rolled in consuming the mountain tops before them: the weather changed from bright sunshine to end-of-the-world dark, cloudy skies in less than an hour.
next album: Qualcomm goes Punting on the Cam, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge - 18th August 2005
previous album: The BBS, and the Big Skies of East Anglia, Diss and Hunston, Norfolk and Suffolk - 6th August 2005
The patriotic shed, and a stop sign
Postboxes on sticks, on Littlepage Lane
A fork in the road
Scrub by the side of the road
Desertey scrub
R-78 and an emergency phone
R-78 heads to the mountains
The hire car - a V-8 Mustang convertible
R-78 winds down into Santa Ysabel
A Santa Ysable real-estate agent
The Santa Ysabel general store
The porch of the general store
Rusting farm machinery, with a Farmall tractor
An antique shop with a whole heap of stuff outside
More rusting equipment
A derelict cart props a sign up
A big 'sem-eye' hauls a trailer-full of beer
David Huls' Scrimshaw Studio on R-78
There are a couple of 50s pickups in the yard
The pleasant, almost-twee town of Julian
Julian's town hall
Empty bench and ice machine
Covered sidewalks
The old Julian Garage, from 1917
A horse and buggy trots down the road
A classic yellow fire hydrant
A Julian crossroads
The W. E. Cole building: Pistols and Petticoats
A small-town liquor store
Dark skies amass behind a house on a hill
A wind-driven water pump
Burned-out shrubs
The darks skies loom over Cuyamaca
Desert scrub in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
Bush fires a few years ago have left their mark
Scary clouds
More skeletal trees
Sunset over a mountain
More sunset action
The Mustang hire-car by the roadside
Frosty Burger in Guatay, near I-8
Lights from a gas station reflect in the wet tarmac
Closed: No Loitering
A closed, but brightly-lit shop in the dark
The view from the hotel room
Eucalyptus tree
Prickly Pear cactus
The curious erosion of Torrey Pine
Dennis Hernandez looks out
The calm Pacific ocean
Sunset over the Pacific
A nighttime view from the hotel window
For some reason, this sign was amusing
A stretch limo comes to pick Nosher up
Nosher's feet in a stretch limo
A school bus on the highway
The I-5 is rammed in both directions
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A patriotic shed just outside Ramona
A patriotic shed just outside Ramona
The patriotic shed, and a stop sign
Postboxes on sticks, on Littlepage Lane
A fork in the road
Scrub by the side of the road
Desertey scrub
R-78 and an emergency phone
R-78 heads to the mountains
The hire car - a V-8 Mustang convertible
R-78 winds down into Santa Ysabel
A Santa Ysable real-estate agent
The Santa Ysabel general store
The porch of the general store
Rusting farm machinery, with a Farmall tractor
An antique shop with a whole heap of stuff outside
More rusting equipment
A derelict cart props a sign up
A big 'sem-eye' hauls a trailer-full of beer
David Huls' Scrimshaw Studio on R-78
There are a couple of 50s pickups in the yard
The pleasant, almost-twee town of Julian
Julian's town hall
Empty bench and ice machine
Covered sidewalks
The old Julian Garage, from 1917
A horse and buggy trots down the road
A classic yellow fire hydrant
A Julian crossroads
The W. E. Cole building: Pistols and Petticoats
A small-town liquor store
Dark skies amass behind a house on a hill
A wind-driven water pump
Burned-out shrubs
The darks skies loom over Cuyamaca
Desert scrub in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
Bush fires a few years ago have left their mark
Scary clouds
More skeletal trees
Sunset over a mountain
More sunset action
The Mustang hire-car by the roadside
Frosty Burger in Guatay, near I-8
Lights from a gas station reflect in the wet tarmac
Closed: No Loitering
A closed, but brightly-lit shop in the dark
The view from the hotel room
Eucalyptus tree
Prickly Pear cactus
The curious erosion of Torrey Pine
Dennis Hernandez looks out
The calm Pacific ocean
Sunset over the Pacific
A nighttime view from the hotel window
For some reason, this sign was amusing
A stretch limo comes to pick Nosher up
Nosher's feet in a stretch limo
A school bus on the highway
The I-5 is rammed in both directions