We
drove route 58 across from Bakersfield to San Luis, a twisting,
pretty, peaceful road taking us through fruit trees to oil fields to
farms full of solar panels instead of cows. We took an 8 mile detour
to see what Carrizo Plain National Monument was, a huge area
obviously full of some rare species of wildlife but all we saw was
the sign, Soda lake in the distance, a herd of pronghorn and a red
tailed hawk!
Still
hot, reaching 40oC/104oF, we camped at El Chorro Country Park and had
a hike to Eagle Rock, smiling to ourselves when we saw the warnings
at the start of the hike – Beware Mountain Lions, Rattlesnakes,
Poison Oak and Ticks.... now most of you would be scared of the
mountain lions and snakes but for us, the dread of ticks is far
worse, having experienced them first hand when we started our
travels in 2008, we had no idea about them until we discovered them –
in places I cannot possibly comment on here!
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