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Oct. 3rd, 2016 09:17 pmI finally got caught up and posted all the photos from the trip. See them here: https://www.instagram.com/richaarde/ I'll make the account private in a few days so I don't have strangers and weirdos commenting, but for the moment I'll leave it open so people can see the photos.
I was in California two years ago (those photos are in my Instagram, too, just scroll down further), but that time we headed north from Los Angeles. This time we headed east through the inland empire and into the desert.
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It's interesting driving around in the southern California. First of all, everywhere you go, there are broad, flat valleys surrounded by high mountains. That is completely unfamiliar terrain to me. Secondly, I come from a state where every square inch of land is incorporated. It's weird driving dozens of miles down the highway without seeing anything. No farms, no towns, nothing but desert scrub. Thirdly, except where interrupted by hills, the developed areas are laid out pretty much rectangularly (is that a word?). Where I am, people set towns up wherever they found a spot, and the roads that connected those place form a tangled web.
I did enjoy the trip, but I'm also glad to be back.
I was in California two years ago (those photos are in my Instagram, too, just scroll down further), but that time we headed north from Los Angeles. This time we headed east through the inland empire and into the desert.
( Cut for TLDR... )
It's interesting driving around in the southern California. First of all, everywhere you go, there are broad, flat valleys surrounded by high mountains. That is completely unfamiliar terrain to me. Secondly, I come from a state where every square inch of land is incorporated. It's weird driving dozens of miles down the highway without seeing anything. No farms, no towns, nothing but desert scrub. Thirdly, except where interrupted by hills, the developed areas are laid out pretty much rectangularly (is that a word?). Where I am, people set towns up wherever they found a spot, and the roads that connected those place form a tangled web.
I did enjoy the trip, but I'm also glad to be back.
