A first desert view
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 (~ 100°F) 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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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
The hire car on a dirt road off I-8
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
A ribbon highway
Emergency water spots in the desert
The Sebring convertible
Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
Cars on the vanishing point
Electricity pylons, Route 98
The pylons stride off into the desert
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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A first desert view
A first desert view
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
The hire car on a dirt road off I-8
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
A ribbon highway
Emergency water spots in the desert
The Sebring convertible
Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
Cars on the vanishing point
Electricity pylons, Route 98
The pylons stride off into the desert
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