August 18, 2014

August 18, 2014

Surprisingly our country’s most populous state, California, is also one of our most uninhabited. Vast sections of the state are almost devoid of people because they are too mountainous or too dry or oftentimes both. We spend the whole day driving, crossing first California’s Mojave Desert and then Arizona’s Sonoran Desert arriving back in Tucson in the late afternoon. The only water on the whole journey was the thin green strip of the Colorado River. We arrived home late in the afternoon. Our one tourist stop was an I-40 drive-by photo of Pisgah volcano.