Day 4
Friday May 18, 2012
Willcox, AZ
6am MST – wake up
7am – Gas up and leave Willcox, AZ on I-10 West towards Tucson.
10:30am – Switch to I-8 West, the highway that will take us the rest of the way to San Diego. This fourth and final day on the road would yield the best roadside scenery of the week.
1:45pm – Another brief Border Patrol stop at the California border. There will be a total of four. Each time the officers seem to get more friendly. On one occasion we slowed to a crawl, never coming to a complete stop as the officer simply waved and said, “Take it easy, guys.”
2pm – Cross the border into California
2:15pm – Immediately after passing through Yuma, AZ and into California we drive through the Imperial Dunes. A spectacular sight, it looks for a few minutes like we are driving through mountains of snow white sugar. Has to be seen to believed. My pictures didn’t do it justice, so I ganked this one from the interwebs:
3:30pm – We settle into the slow lane as our truck struggles up the steep mountain ascent and into Devil’s Valley. This stretch of highway is far and away the most striking scenery, surrounded as we are by mountain-size piles of boulders as far as the eye can see. The truck’s temperature gauge is peaking out as we reach the summit. We heave a sigh of relief as we reach the top and begin the long descent into the city proper.
4pm – Arrive at A1’s house in San Diego. We decompress for a while and after cleaning up we go out to dinner with A1’s parents at an excellent Mediterranean restaurant around the corner from his place called Aladdin Café.
7pm – We meet up with some friends in the Pacific Beach neighborhood for bonfire, bourbon & beer.
10pm PST – Back at the house, we crash.
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