We got back from Saline Valley yesterday after a very nice trip. We went down to Taft first and stayed a couple of days with Judy and had a great visit and got to see a whole other life. Taft is in the oil fields and Judy’s sons work there. We saw all 3 of them and all of their respective offspring. After our quiet lives up in Greenville sometimes it seemed like a mad house when they were all together but it was a controlled mad house anyway. The weather down there was very nice and I wore a T-shirt most of the time. Ya gotta love that this time of year.
After leaving Taft on Monday we drove over the Tehachapi’s into Mohave for breakfast. I had never been over Highway 58 which was the route we took so it was all new to me. I was very impressed by all the windmills over on the desert side. We didn’t get any pictures of them but there were so many you couldn’t count them all. They must be able to generate quite a bit of electricity there due to the strong winds.
Next it was up to 395 and Olancha for the last gas stop before getting
on the dirt road to Saline. The Saline Valley road had it’s usual road closed sign up but we didn’t find any real bad spots. I was surprised to find that my new Windows phone had good enough cell service at our campsite for me to download web pages and send email. I could have made some phone calls but I didn’t. I was able to check on the weather though and I decided to come home a day early on Thursday instead of staying till Friday like I had planned because of the bad weather coming in. Turned out that it was the right decision since it started snowing this morning and hasn’t stopped since and we have about 3-4 inches already and more coming. The roads were clear yesterday and they sure aren’t now. Nice to be home warm and safe!
