Friday, January 12, 2007

Driving in a Sand Storm


Amazing weather. We left Desert Hot Springs Friday, Jan 12 at 49 degrees, in sun but very cold and new snow on the mountains, down quite low. It was even snowing in Banning west of here.We're headed east on I10 to Texas for our Mexico trip. We left California, crossed the Colorado River into Arizona and fueled up at Ehrenberg Flying J Plaza, $178.00. Sounds high but our 'hotel' bills are nothing. Very windy - Ron was really hanging onto the steering wheel. An hour later, we got into a hail storm with zero visibility for 15 miinutes and it built some 'snow' up on the windshield. An hour later it was dry and bingo! we were enveloped in a sandstorm - visibility down to 100 feet. If you look very closely at the picture, you can barely see the headlights of the oncoming car and 18 wheeler behind the 1st one in the left lane. Could not even see a horizon, amazing! Got to Quartzsite at 3:45 their time and parked it.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hey love your BLOG...It's almost as if I was there... well not during the snow part of it but the rest for sure... hope you two are in the sunshine and enjoying it... let me know if you have more posted.

Birgit