The Trip

Nothing much to talk about on the journey from Ft. Worth to San Diego.

The only thing interesting about the drive from Ft. Worth to El Paso was being able to go 80 mph on the freeway. The drive long and the landscape wasn't very pleasing. The land wasn't as flat as I expected it to be, however.

Other than having a couple of run-ins with border patrol, nothing to report about New Mexico. They were forcing all the cars on the freeway to pull into their stations for inspection. It's a good thing I had my passport on me. I ran into them again in Arizona and California. The thing that surprised me the most was that ALL the border patrol agents asked me the same questions:

Where are you coming from?

Why are you here?

What kind of work?

Engineering? Where?

Navy? What base?

Good luck.

I wonder if that's government-mandated.

The drive from Tuscon to San Diego was more interesting. That was my first time driving through a desert so the scenery was unfamiliar. I saw lots of cacti and dust devils along the way. Probably the most interesting part was getting to the are where there were actual sand dunes, like in the Sahara. I got out and took a few pictures.

I was dead tired when I finally got to San Diego. It's actually quite hilly until you get to the coast, even more so than Austin. Very green and beautiful, too.

When I've been here for awhile, I'll make another entry about San Diego.