Sunday April 19, 2015

Another long ride, we went from hills to sand dunes to agricultural valley. The first section of the road was on a narrow, winding road with some great dips and climbs.

The tough part of this road is that it is quite busy and cars cannot see you or each other when you are in the dip.

Therefore it is quite a dangerous road. We started early (6:30) so that we could avoid most of the traffic.

By the time we got to Glamis, where the road widens out and we had a shoulder, it was getting hot again. The sand dunes were amazing and very beautiful.

We met Danny and Jill at the convenience store in Glamis and headed up the hill.

I won, not really Ralf was at the top waiting with his camera.

Then we headed downhill into the agricultural valley of Brawley.

Corn, cows and cash crops were the mainstay in this area.

We arrived in Brawley at just after 12:00 and stopped in at a gas station we had two mocha ice-coffees which were wonderful. We then realized that we didn’t have our warmshowers actual address, only his phone number. Ralf called the number but it was turned off (we found out later it was because he was in church). We headed to McDs to get some wi-fi, second problem Bill doesn’t have his address on the warmshowers website. We once again relied on Janet who had stayed with him a few days earlier. We eventually found the house and were welcomed by Theresa who showed us our room shower and introduced us to the four parrots and three dogs!

Bill was on his way home from Las Vegas, but was stuck behind an army convoy on the same road that we had come through, all those curves, dips and hills was slowing him down. When he got to the Glamis sand dunes, he was stopped again because there was a movie shoot and they were only allowing traffic through every 15 minutes.

Theresa took Ralf to Wal-mart and I did the laundry and caught up with writing the blog.

Bill and Theresa met in prison. She is a nurse and he was a prison officer. Theresa gets up early and we said our good-byes tonight. We planned our route and Bill suggested that we take Highway 8 earlier than the ACA maps recommended as the ACA route was on a rough, busy road with no shoulders.