We're well on our way and thanks to some pretty nice weather and light traffic, we made it all the way to Kingman, AZ (about an hour past our scheduled stop at Bullhead City).
I think we covered most of the main land types today, passing through green hills, snowy mountains and lots of scrubby desert. This trip also reaffirmed the fact that, despite the chill, winter is the best time to travel in California. No other time of the year offers the distinct green that the hills and grasses get after a particularly heavy winter rainstorm.
The couple curiosities we passed today:
- Extensive orchards south of Gilroy. Are they apricots, nectarines, plums? Not sure but they're just starting to bloom.
- Really long trains carrying dozens of refrigerated trailers (like trucks normally haul). Why? Is it cheaper than driving them? Are they broken?
- Windmill farms near Bakersfield. Lots and lots of windmills.
And we're also pleased to announce that Kasey the cat did excellently on the road. After a bit of readjusting so she had a nice comfy bed by the window we dealt with very minimal meowing. She's all settled into the hotel now, and very, very tired. As are we.
Tomorrow we're hoping to keep up our travel lead and finish Arizona and maybe 2/3 of New Mexico.
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