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Gulliver's Travels  03/29/2021

3/29/2021

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The Southwest

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                                Part II -- California
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   Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and I agree(ed) on one thing: President James Polk should not have gone to war with Mexico in 1846.  When I went to Utah, California, Arizona, and New Mexico in January, I should have required my passport to enter Mexico.  Nonetheless, those "stolen states" have incredible natural beauty, so I enjoyed it, either it be Mexico or the United States.  (But I still hope that we allow California to secede.  If it doesn't, I'm for kicking them out of the Union.  Wisconsin then can regain the leadership in milk production--and Wisconsin dairy farmers won't have to unfairly fight against the massive California herds that benefit from subsidized water coming from the Sierra Nevada.  There, I got THAT off my chest!).

   I visited two national parks in California: Death Valley NP and Joshua Tree NP, plus a couple of national monuments.  I also drove for a ways on old Route 66 west of Needles--as I did in 1946 and 1961.  Both its pavement and my body have aged approximately the same--but from different kinds of abuse.

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Death Valley, looking west to its sand dunes
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Boron salts, called borax, was mined in Death Valley in the 1880s
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This is the lowest point in North America.
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Zabriske Point in Death Valley, made famous by the 1970 movie
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It's pretty evident why it's called Death Valley
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Joshua Tree National Park
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Joshua Tree National Park
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Lots of cowboy movies of our youth seemed to have been filmed here.
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Octillo cactus
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Even cacti eventually die.

Upcoming event:

Arizona is next, with lots of beautiful scenery--and very, very old people in winter, so be careful not to catch old age if you visit there.

​Dale

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