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| Kern County |
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| More Kern County |
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| Tulare County |
I had my heart (stomach maybe) set on a Subway flatbread breakfast sandwich but
they didn’t open until 7:00 and I didn’t want to wait that long. I picked up one more cache at a bridge in
town and then headed east on Highway 198.
I was riding right into the sun but it wasn’t too bad. I’ll take that over rain. I picked up two out
of a series of caches with “Jackson” in the name
that I had chosen in honor of my grandson by that name who had accompanied me
on some epic camping/Geocaching adventures and that took care of Kings County. I then jogged south and east into Tulare County
which reminded me of Idaho
farm country. I picked up two more
caches along the way. After proceeding
south a ways on Highway 65 I took the wonderful Highway 155 up to Isabella Lake.
Along the way I stopped for a couple of caches in Kern County. I was going to duplicate this section of my
route on the return trip but it was such great riding that I didn’t mind at
all. At Lake Isabella
I took Hwy 178 over to Hwy 14 which headed south. Around Koehn Lake
I took the Redrock-Randsburg Road
east over to Randsburg. This is desolate country similar to Nevada and I was running
low on gas. At this intersection I was
fortunate to meet one of the few vehicles on the road. He seemed to be some sort of utility worker
in a pickup and I flagged him down. He
said there was gas the other side of Randsburg on Hwy 395. Randsburg is in the middle of nowhere and is
a really neat ghost town where I got some pictures.
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| Randsburg |
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| Randsburg |
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| Randsburg |
At
Randsburg I got on Hwy 395 south until in merged into I-15 south of
Victorvillle. Now I hit the terrible
winds of San Bernardino
County. It was just like last year when I made a
foray into that county on my Arizona
trip. This was also the worst traffic of
my trip with a lot of waiting probably due to being around 5:00. I was tempted to split lanes as motorcycles
are allowed to in CA but my luggage bags stick out so far I was afraid I might
bump a car. Actually the next morning I
did get up enough nerve to slowly do some lane splitting when the traffic was
stopped.
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| Quality Inn boulder walk |
One
of the two challenge caches for the California
counties (Discovering & Logging California's 58 Counties) was located in Lake Elsinore
which is why I chose to stay there for the night. To get credit for the cache you have to
submit a list of a cache you’ve found for each county and sign the log book for
that physical cache. Like many, it is
totally impractical for me to sign the log after I’ve done all the counties so
I sign the log when I’m in the area but don’t log it on line until I’ve
completed the requirements. After
checking in at the Quality Inn I discovered that the cache was located
nearby. The person who signed the log
before me had noted that the log book was missing and the container was full of
water with no lid which he had repaired.
I found the same situation so I repaired it as best I could and notified
the owner.
I
was glad this day was over as I had been on the road 11 ½ hours and covered 400
miles in addition to all the stops I’d make.
The Quality Inn was a nice place except I didn’t have any hot water –
just luke warm. After reporting it they
reset the hot water tank and fixed it but that was a little late for my
shower. One interesting feature was what
appeared to be sunken boulders in place of walks. To be continued. M/W
2 comments:
I think just as well that Subway was closed. I heard it's bad luck to follow up 2 McD. double cheeseburgers with a Subway sammich!
Randsburg looks cute!
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