Northern California 9 Nov 1997

Southern California 10 Nov 1997 11 Nov 1997

The Southwest 12 Nov 1997

Texas 13 Nov 1997 14 Nov 1997 16 Nov 1997

New Orleans 16 Nov 1997 18 Nov 1997

Montgomery, Alabama 19 Nov 1997

Wednesday 12 Nov 97 Arizona and New Mexico

A desert trip, today. We saw lots of skid marks and an occasional cross by the side of the road, but at 80 or so miles per hour, the trip went fairly fast. The drive from Palm Springs was much less desolate than I remember a similar trip to Phoenix a few years ago. Seemed like there was no real desert, although there was plenty of sand. The sand was well populated by saguaro cacti (way cute, but troubled) and what I presume was mesquite (as well as the usual tumbleweed stuff). There were even several stands of cotton, which were the first instances of cotton in the rough, so to speak, for either of us. It’s just like one would expect, but has seeds within the puffballs, which, I suppose, is what Eli Whitney’s machine was intended to deal with.