Florida
| California March 2021 | Arizona
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| San Luis Obispo Solvang Santa Barbara Palm Springs Joshua Tree NP Visalia Sequoia NP |
This was the first part of two extended trips across the USA from California to Florida
This section was an all-electric road trip in my loyal BMW i3, from Palo Alto to Phoenix and back.
San Luis Obispo
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| Mission San Luis Obispo |
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| San Luis Obispo History Center |
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| Bubblegum Alley, a local Eccentricity |
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| Pismo Beach |
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| Pismo Beach |
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| Pismo Beach |
Solvang
A "Danish" town in central California
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| "Little Mermaid" Replica |
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| "Little Mermaid" Replica |
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| “Three Aebelskiver” (turned into nine) |
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| Raisin Bread with icing! |
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| Hans Christian Andersen memorial |
Santa Barbara
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| Santa Barbara Pier |
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| Old County Courthouse |
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| Old County Courthouse |
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| Old County Courthouse |
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| Old County Courthouse |
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| El Presidio de Santa Barbara (1782) |
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| El Presidio |
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| El Presidio |
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Mission Santa Barbara
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| Mission Santa Barbara |
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| Interior quadrangle garden |
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| Mission Interior |
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| Odd "Lightning Bolt" ceiling fixture |
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| Mission entry from Churchyard Note the Skull and Crossbone motif |
Ojai
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| Ojai Museum (closed) |
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| Ojai Post Office |
Palm Springs
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| A valley oasis surrounded by mountains |
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| Palm Trees & Mountains |
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| Shields Date Garden |
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
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| Bighorn Sheep |
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| Relaxed Island Fox Native to the Channel Islands of South California |
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| Mountain Lion |
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| Mountain Lion |
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| Charming Kit Fox |
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| American Badger |
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| Big Bad wolves |
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| Walk-about Wallaby Enclosure |
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| Bennett's Wallaby |
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| Bennett's Wallaby |
Indian Canyons
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| Palm Canyon: A canyon creek, lined by Palm trees |
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| The narrow creek |
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| Andres Canyon Entrance |
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| Beautiful Red Barrel Cactus |
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| The lush Andreas Canyon oasis |
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| Varied vegetation |
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| A briskly flowing canyon stream |
Joshua Tree National Park
Many, many, exotic Joshua Trees, set in a dry wasteland.
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| A forest of Joshua Trees |
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| Large Joshua Tree + Scotsman |
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| A rare tall straight Joshua Tree |
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| Hidden Valley Trail entrance |
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| Hidden Valley crags |
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| Skull Rock |
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| Skull Rock |
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| Oasis of Mara Palm trees were planted by Serrano indians |
Visalia area
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| View from Visalia to snowy Sierra Nevadas |
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| An EVgo stop in Visalia |
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| Dinuba Walgreens: For my first Pfizer shot |
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| Mountains & Orange Trees. East of Dinuba |
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| Mountains & Orange Trees. East of Dinuba |
Sequoia National Park
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| General Grant Tree "The World's Largest Tree" |
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| General Grant + Scotsman |
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| General Sherman upper foliage |
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| A Giant Cross-Section |
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| A fallen Sequoia trunk |
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| Another Giant: The Sentinel Tree |
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| Snow on the ground, even in April |
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| General Grant Tree |
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| General Grant Tree: Upper Foliage |
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| A cluster of Giants at the Grant parking lot |
Palm Springs to Yuma
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| Salton Sea |
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| Salton Sea |
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| The Calexico Border Crossing Closed to tourists, due to COVID-19. |
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| Real sand desert, en route from Calexico to Yuma |
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Florida
| Arizona
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