With our current pace I thought we might have to slow down but then I took another look at our activities and realized that there is no "slow down". We are going almost as slow as one can without standing absolutely still. It seems that in comparison to past years, we have been pretty docile!!
We started the week with going on a little drive to watch an off-road event but not much was happening so we decided to tour Salton City (on the Salton Sea). We had seen this before but the beach was lined with hay bales and we had speculated the purpose of them.
The conclusion was that it was likely some sort of racetrack - wrong. The bales are placed there to stop erosion of the soil in the wind. A brochure also said that they had planted some sort of vegetation but did not irrigate after the plants started to grow. There was no evidence of anything being planted but I wouldn't expect much would grow in that soil without some sort of moisture, but who knows.
One day we drove up the mountain with Rick and Chris to Julian (about an hour away). Julian is a little historic town which is known for apples and apple pie. Of course we bought a pie to bring home - and it was supper.
We had lunch at this cute little diner which had some interesting decor as well as a candy store.
The trip back was beautiful as everything is nice and green because of recent rains.
In one of the meadows we saw a flock of turkeys that were busy eating but they soon scattered when we stopped to take a photo.
There were also a couple of old turkeys in the front seat but they didn't seem to mind being photographed. Perhaps they didn't know.
We decided that maybe we should take a little off-road trip so we went to Inspiration Point which is an overlook for the Anza Borrego Badlands. We decided to go in the back way which was quite scenic.
Another week has come to an end and who knows what next week will bring. Hopefully everyone will have a great week and take care.
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