Scrub off I-8
California Desert: San Diego to El Centro - 24th September 2005
With nearly a whole weekend to play around with, and armed with a V-6 Chrysler Sebring convertible, I take a trip out to the desert east of San Diego. The drive goes from San D along Interstate 8, then off on Route 98 to Calexico (a few miles from the Mexico border towards Yuma) followed by 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 given me 3rd-degree burns
next album: California Desert 2: The Salton Sea and Anza-Borrego to Julian - 24th September 2005
previous album: Solana Beach and La Jolla Salsa Night - 23rd September 2005
Tree
A truck stops for a break
Yucca plants
Telegraph pole and cloud, near Jacumba, on dirt road off I-8
A self-portrait (thanks to mini-tripod) of Nosher and the convertible
Roadside hoarding in the middle of nowhere, advertising to no-one
Cactus
Desert plant, Route 98
Along the roadside, every few-hundred yards, are flagged buckets with containers of water for emergencies and suchlike
The convertible
Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
The highway shimmers like a ribbon in the heat
Electricity pylons, Route 98
Abandoned dairy near Calexico, California/Mexico border
Derelict building close-up
The dairy's front-door, all shot-up
Smashed 1930s-style windows
Inside the dairy
Union Pacific Railroad yard, El Centro
Warehouse and Watertower, El Centro
Heavy locomotives
A line of spare wheel-sets rusts slowly away
More rolling stock
Wheels in black-and-white
Railroad crossing
Graffitoed loco
Pizza Hut sign, quaintly spaced
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