Our ride today was supposed to be 88 miles, the longest of the trip. Six hardy souls went the distance, and the rest of us were ready to ride in the truck for the last 28 miles, after 60 hot, hilly miles, mostly riding into a headwind. Two of the day’s highlights came when we were in the truck. We rode through the Algodones sand dunes, some of which are 300 feet high. We also saw approximately 100 fifth graders, each with a parent, riding into the wind, on an annual 270 mile Ride Across California sponsored by a San Diego YMCA.
We rode through about 20 miles of irrigated farmland when we left Blythe. This mailbox is one of the few creative ones I have noticed on this trip. I remember many more on the Northern Tier ride.
Once we started climbing, there wasn’t much shade. Looking out from my little shrub, the landscape looked like my idea of a moonscape.
This bush looks like a desert pussy willow.
Some of the kids and their chaperones riding through the dunes.
I had no idea we have Sahara-like dunes in this country.
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