We woke this morning to a light dusting of snow on the ground. There was a brisk wind blowing the falling snow sideways across the city. People were out building small snow men and the lady at the convenience store told me that they hadn`t had snow in Barstow since 2008. The traffic and weather reports are telling of closed freeways at the passes and accidients-a-plenty ...boy can we pick `em!
We head out toward Palm Springs after we stopped at a truck stop just on the edge of town. A little breakfast and top off the tank. It appears the road could be icy. We see some accidents in the opposite direction and police have the road closed to clear the damaged vehicles. The back up goes on for miles! Luckly, we just need to avoid the compact snow and potentially icy lanes. Peter does a great job making sure the trailer doesn`t try to pass us up.
We do run into a backup a couple of towns further on. Listening to the CB radio we learn that a semi had jack knifed just up ahead and was being cleared. And this is supposed to be sunny southern California! The weather is supposed to warm up later in the week so hopefully the rest of our trip will be without snow. The little bit of snow we experienced didn`t look all that bad. Because of the number of incidents we saw and heard of, it must have been worse than it appeared. Possibly just agressive California drivers on summer tires...?
We finally navigate our way to the low desert and find our way to the lovely new home of Peter`s aunt and uncle. We off load our bikes and stow the motorhome a short distance away for the night. We took an evening ride out to what suposed to be a quaint little restaurant in Rancho Mirage. It turned out to be a night life hot spot in a shopping mall. Good food however. That and a couple of beers had us ready to head back and settle in for the night.
Tomorrow`s mission will have us find a place to store the motor home for the rest of the bike portion of the trip and explore our surroundings.
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