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Day 12: Scottsdale, Arizona - Santa Clarita, CA. 416 miles

2/27/2022

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​Ring around the sun (ice crystals) just outside Scottsdale.  That usually means a storm is on the way.

Cue overhead camera:
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Picture​After. ​ We've been carrying salt from Cape Cod for some 3,705 miles, plus everywhere else along the way. It's time (!) to wash the car.
 


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Saguaro cactus. They can live up to 200 years. In Arizona it's a Class 4 felony to steal, kill, deface, or shoot (!) one (max. sentence four years.) This landscape made me think of what someone told me about the Nova Scotia landscape: "God created it, and then threw rocks at it."

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At a truck stop in Arizona. We actually backtracked 15 miles because we were running low and the next station in our direction was nearly 50 miles away.

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"Hmmm... I'm not sure about my friend Aidan's data crunching on this - I LIKE the yellow ones."

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Approaching the Colorado River. The same one that marks the border between Arizona and California is the one that runs through the Grand Canyon.

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"Welcome to California. Any fruit to declare?"

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Wind turbines at Twenty-nine Palms, CA.

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California sunset.

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When Ben saw our IDs at the hotel check-in, he was excited to see the Massachusetts connection: he's a composer who studied at Berklee (hotel management is a night job). This orchestral piece he composed was performed by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. (Click on the photo if you'd like to watch it.)

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    from the little blue cottage to redwood city,

    Joe, Di, Little Papi and the Meep are taking the Dream Car and hitting the road back to the west coast. for awhile, anyway.

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