A first desert view
California Desert: San Diego to El Centro, 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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previous album: San Diego Trip Number Four, California, US - 22nd September 2005
Scrub off I-8
A solitary actually-green tree
A truck stops for a break
A gravel road
Telegraph pole and cloud, near Jacumba, on dirt road off I-8
More desert scrub
A self-portrait 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 points, every few hundred yards along the road
The Sebring convertible
Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
Electricity pylons, Route 98
The pylons strid off into the desert
Abandoned dairy near Calexico, California/Mexico border
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
A beat-up train at El Centro
Train and hut at El Centro
Warehouse and Watertower, El Centro
Heavy locomotives
A line of spare wheel-sets rusts slowly away
Rusty wheels and the loco 'Cotton Belt'
More rusty wheels
A deserted warehouse
Railroad crossing
The railway yard
A Union Pacific train
Looking back into El Centro
A homeless dude has a sleep
Pizza Hut sign, quaintly spaced
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A first desert view
