We are now missing a member of the honeymoon team... :o( our trusty Ford Focus, who we picked up in Detroit Motor City, and had stood by us until yesterday (when I made a hasty u-turn on the way to the Neon Boneyard). Our new travel buddy, a VW Jetta, unfortunately could not hope to fill his shoes. We drove across the Mojave desert to a weirdly named city called 29 Palms, hoping to take a scenic shortcut through
Joshua Tree National Park. However, it was not to be - the main road had been closed (actually, a german tourist just described it as 'gone') when a flash flood came through. This photo is at the Oasis behind the Park Ranger Station, where we found out had some lunch.
As we emerged from the Morongo Valley on highway 62 and met Interstate 10, we started to see windmills.
Lots of windmills.
Then more windmills. Hundreds of them! Some with two blades, some with three blades, some static, some moving... it seemed like we have arrived in the land of the windmill! We had stumbled on the
San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm - over 3,000 turbine generators delivering over 600 MW (about the same as a standard fossil-fuel power station, with zero CO2 emissions).
Arriving earlier than planned in the city of Elvis'
honeymoon hideaway Ooh! Ahhh! (although we only found out about this later), we relaxed for the first time in weeks poolside at the luxurious Palm Springs Motel.
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