The plan for today was to drive 45 minutes into rising elevation and Yosemite National Park but I think our bad luck is continuing. The skies looked semi clear and I was hopeful until I called the road condition number and found out that in order to drive there today you are required by law to have chains. Some of the roads required them to be on your car. They also warned of changing road conditions in the park. Feeling discouraged but not defeated I called the number for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks . . . but the story was the same. We needed a new plan so we changed a couple of hotels and decided to head back to the desert. As we drove through the agricultural belt of California we noticed some very pretty wild flowers along the road side.
The entire valley from Modesto to Bakersfield and beyond is mile after mile of orchards and vineyards. So much agriculture all using irrigation methods . . .so much water
While driving on CA Route 58 to Barstow through the area Tehachapi we saw one of the largest wind farms I have ever seen. I got on line to read about it . . . Al was driving and I found out it is one of the
original wind farms in the nation. They began to build it in the 1980' s
We chose a restaurant near the hotel for dinner. My brother in law would have loved the decor. Patches on the wall from Police and Fire Departments all over the country. Fire jackets, helmets, and all sorts of fire related paraphernalia . . .the food was good as well.
Tomorrow we are going back out to the desert for some more power caching and hopefully no rain.
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