January 15 2025
Dep 9 AM 3C
Arr 4PM 23C
Time Diff - minus 3 hours from Toronto
Tucson AZ - Palm Springs CA
3 bathroom breaks 2 gas stops 1 Yuma
We were on the road by 9. Getting out of Tucson was easy.
We opted for the slightly longer route on I - 8 towards San Diego rather than go through Phoenix.
It is a much more pleasant drive.
We stopped for a bathroom break and stretched our legs for a while.
A dairy farm.
VERY fresh milk!
We took a break in Yuma AZ. The link below for 2004 includes a trip to Yuma.
Known as the "Sunniest City on Earth," according to Guinness World Records, Yuma promises sunshine and warm weather at least 91% of the year, making this city a premier travel destination year-round.
The San Carlos Hotel is a historic hotel in Yuma, Arizona. Its construction cost $300,000, and it was completed in 1930. It was five stories high, with 107 bedrooms. It was remodelled into 59 residential apartments in the 1980s.
The building was designed in the Art Deco architectural style by Dorr and Gibbs, a firm based in Los Angeles. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 12, 1984.
In 1994 Brian came to Gowan to build a business in Mexico that would provide growth and opportunity for the company and his employees. Walking the fields with farmers, Brian and his Tribe were men with muddy boots. They identified crop protection solutions that would create productivity and prosperity for their customers.
They nurtured the reputation of his young enterprise by leaving distinctive signs in customers' fields displaying the Calidad Gowan (Gowan Quality) logo to promote its on-target technology. This logo became synonymous with the quality products and remarkable service his flourishing business provided to Mexican farmers.
Waiting for our smoothies.
California
California Border Protection Stations are 16 checkpoints placed at California's land borders with neighboring states and maintained by the CDFA for the purpose of monitoring vehicle traffic entering the state for the presence of cargo infested with pests.
And gas just got expensive!
The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and longest. A 2023 report put the surface area at 318 square miles (823.6 km2).[1] The Salton Sea became a resort destination in the 20th Century, but saw die-offs of fish and birds in the 1980s due to contamination from farm runoff, and clouds of toxic dust in the current century as evaporation exposed parts of the lake bed.
Onto I-10 West (to LA) traffic is heavy as we enter Palm Springs.
Palm Springs CA
1996 March
2008 Recap
We checked into Oasis Resort, did groceries and RELAXED.
