After the Indio rally is over, we like to go 175 miles more to Mojave CA to visit my granddaughter Samantha Gustin, husband Chris,and their family. Samantha home schools their 15 year old son, Luke and 6 year old Ivy. When we arrived Tabitha had just celebrated her 5th birthday.
Ivy is enjoying a home made ice cream cone
Tabitha playing with her mother.
Both girls (Ivy left) with father Chris.
More playing with Samantha,Tabitha on left
Tabitha is showing me her new doll. While Ivy is older, Tabitha is taller.
We visited a facility near Rosamond which keeps rescue felines of endangered species. This is a black mountain lion, commonly called a cougar. African lions are not endangered, so they have none. Their animals originate all over the world, many in Asia.
Tabitha, Ivy in glasses, Samantha and Luke.
Ivy, Jo and Tabitha
The area around Mojave is literally bristling with wind turbines. Just a few of them are shown here. Many have been added since we last were there two years ago.
Twenty miles north of Mojave, up a long hill, is the town of Tehachapi and Tehachapi Loop, billed as one of the seven railroad wonders of the world, Trains go around the loop (really a spiral) having an elevation change of about 75 feet and northbound trains leave the loop, shown below, through a tunnel under part of the tracks. The trains are so long that the northbound locomotives are exiting the tunnel while some of the cars are still above it.
Here (both above and below) the northbound Union Pacific locomotives are exiting the tunnel while the cars they are pulling are still in the circle over the tunnel. This is a mainline route between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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