| Instead of taking Interstate 5 (I-5) we took (most of) The Old Road beneath or beside the highway. It winds through a couple towns remaining in the (windy) shadow of this major north-south trafficway. | |
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| Off the I-5, more room for cruising! | |
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| From the valley into the forested hills. | |
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Snow!!! | |
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| A panorama looking northeast over the San Joaquin Valley. | |
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| We came to a T in the road: time to make a choice. | |
| To the right I spied this old 76 Union sign, and we needed a stop. | |
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| This station hadn't pumped gas in a long time. But, there was a road... | |
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| ... to something called "Carizzo Plain National Monument." | |
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| There was a parking area and kiosk explaining this "monument." | |
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| The Carizzo Plain is one of the easiest places to see the San Andreas Fault and it runs right through the sag pond behind the kiosk. We were on the most famous earthquake fault in the world! | |
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salt-filled sag pond | |
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| A road through the plain looked like it could take us somewhere interesting. | |
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| But it turned rough and not so cruise-friendly so we headed back. | |
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| Cracks could be seen in the landscape from the highway. | |
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| Homeward now in reverse direction to our prior trip. We pass an orchard and vineyard, a little too early in the season for them to look like much. | |
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It's all downhill | |
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from here... | |
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Oops, didn't photograph all the way to the ocean, but trust that it was there eventually. )
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