BAKERSFIELD, CA.  We are at an RV park just outside the Mojave Desert.  Glad finally to be out of the desert!  On our way here we passed Twenty Mule Team Road that leads to Boron, where the Borax plant is located. We took a photo of the plant from the rest stop where we stopped for lunch.  There were more Joshua trees along CA58 on which we traveled heading north from I-40 to get here.  We left I-40 and Route 66 well behind us.

Bakersfield is located at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley.  The last part of our drive here was down a steep decline through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  What a difference in landscape and colors!  Rolling hills of greenery leading into farm country here.

At the RV park here are what we used to call "red tip" bushes, very popular in Jacksonville's Mandarin area in the 1990s, but a blight ("fire blight") killed them all.  The are alive and thriving in California (see photo below).

We now have added California to the map on our motorhome slide-out to show that we have motorhomed through it.  Next we shall add Alaska.

Bakersfield Is Well Into Southern California

Just Out of the Mojave Desert (Upper Left)

Pretty Trees at Rest Stop (Even in Drought)

But Some Trees Are Suffering from the Drought

In the Distance is the Borax Plant

At Our RV Park Are "Red Tips" Bushes
(Photinia fraseri)

We Have Now Added California to the States
We Have Visited in Our Motorhome