Scrub off I-8
California Desert: El Centro, Imperial Valley, California, US - 24th September 2005
With nearly a whole weekend to play around with, and armed with a V-6 Chrysler Sebring convertible, Nosher takes a trip out to the desert east of San Diego. The drive goes from San Diego along Interstate 8, then off on Route 98 to Calexico, a few miles from the Mexico border towards Yuma. The road then turns inland towards Heber and El Centro. The centre of the desert is ragingly hot - in the region of 37°C - and it doesn't take long before the lid has to be closed on the convertible as any longer in the sun would probably have led to 3rd-degree burns.
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A solitary actually-green tree
A truck stops for a break
A gravel road
Telegraph pole and cloud, near Jacumba
More desert scrub
A selfie of Nosher and the Sebring convertible
Wisteria Candy Cottage hoarding
Desert scrub and a petrol station
Spiky cactus and the Wisteria sign
Restrictions in the desert
Vanishing-point road
Desert Ocotillo plant, Route 98
A Budget rent-a-van trundles by
Emergency water spots in the desert
The Sebring convertible
Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
Cars on the ribbon of a highway
Massed electricity pylons on Route 98
The pylons stride off into the desert
An abandoned dairy near Calexico
The abandoned dairy
The dairy's front-door, all shot-up
Smashed 1930s-style windows
Inside the dairy
A curious house-letterbox on a stick
Loco 7675 - a big lump of metal
A beat-up train at El Centro
Train and hut at El Centro
More dusty rail-yard action
Warehouse and Watertower, El Centro
Heavy locomotives
A line of spare wheel-sets rusts slowly away
Rusty wheels and the loco 'Cotton Belt'
Loco 7275 - Cotton Belt
More rusty wheels
A deserted warehouse
An El Centro railroad crossing
The railway yard
Graffiti tags on a locomotive
A loco between some other engines
A Union Pacific train
7300 and 7655 El Paso
Looking back into El Centro
A homeless dude has a sleep
Pizza Hut sign, quaintly spaced
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Scrub off I-8
Scrub off I-8
A solitary actually-green tree
A truck stops for a break
A gravel road
Telegraph pole and cloud, near Jacumba
More desert scrub
A selfie of Nosher and the Sebring convertible
Wisteria Candy Cottage hoarding
Desert scrub and a petrol station
Spiky cactus and the Wisteria sign
Restrictions in the desert
Vanishing-point road
Desert Ocotillo plant, Route 98
A Budget rent-a-van trundles by
Emergency water spots in the desert
The Sebring convertible
Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
Cars on the ribbon of a highway
Massed electricity pylons on Route 98
The pylons stride off into the desert
An abandoned dairy near Calexico
The abandoned dairy
The dairy's front-door, all shot-up
Smashed 1930s-style windows
Inside the dairy
A curious house-letterbox on a stick
Loco 7675 - a big lump of metal
A beat-up train at El Centro
Train and hut at El Centro
More dusty rail-yard action
Warehouse and Watertower, El Centro
Heavy locomotives
A line of spare wheel-sets rusts slowly away
Rusty wheels and the loco 'Cotton Belt'
Loco 7275 - Cotton Belt
More rusty wheels
A deserted warehouse
An El Centro railroad crossing
The railway yard
Graffiti tags on a locomotive
A loco between some other engines
A Union Pacific train
7300 and 7655 El Paso
Looking back into El Centro
A homeless dude has a sleep
Pizza Hut sign, quaintly spaced