Photos from the Road: Highway 58 East to Mojave, California
May 20, 2008On March 5th of this year I posted photos I took while traversing the Grapevine portion of Interstate 5 in California on the morning of January 23, 2008 to the DeVry University Center in Bakersfield where I have been teaching since October 2007.
As I mentioned, due to the snow that began to fall that morning, as of 3 p.m. that day the California Highway Patrol (CHP) decided to close the 5 between Castaic and the base of the Grapevine and it remained closed through a good portion of the following day.
Due to my teaching schedule at DeVry I had already planned to stay over in Bakersfield that night, but the continued closure of the 5 the following day, Thursday, January 24, 2008, necessitated my taking the “long way” home on Higway 58 East through Tehachapi to the 14 Freeway South — a route which, at that time, I was driving on Monday afternoons to get to a class I was teaching in Palmdale once I finished my classes in Bakersfield. From the 14 South I made my way to Interstate 5 North and home to Santa Clarita (though this post does not include photos of that leg of the journey).
With Southern California currently sweltering under a relentless heatwave, today seemed like a perfect time to share some photos I took of that snowbound adventure. Note that the photos below were taken roughly between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. and are only from the portion of the trip on Highway 58 and do not include much less interesting shots I took while driving south on the 14.
Although it was not heavily snowing, though there was an intermittent dusting. Overall it was an enjoyable drive and was especially interesting once I got to the portion of the highway where the windmills are visible. Hopefully the photos of this trip will provide some kind of relief for those of you who are now contending with temperatures in the 90s and 100s.
Looks like Colorado. Love the last one. You are officially bookmarked as one of my weekly reads. There’s a lot of hard work and thought put into this one! Thanks for sharing.
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[...] Photos from the Road — California Highway 58 EastAs I mentioned, due to the snow that began to fall that morning, as of 3 pm that day the California Highway Patrol (CHP) decided to close the 5 between Castaic and the base of the Grapevine and it remained closed through a good portion …Matthew Gilbert | Doctorious! | Adjunct… – http://doctorious.org [...]
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[...] Photos from the Road — California Highway 58 East20 May 2008 by Matthew Gilbert As I mentioned, due to the snow that began to fall that morning, as of 3 pm that day the California Highway Patrol (CHP) decided to close the 5 between Castaic and the base of the Grapevine and it remained closed through a good portion …Matthew Gilbert | Doctorious! | Adjunct… – http://doctorious.org [...]
Heatwave? What heatwave?
The weather is so strange here in the AV. It’s only been a week since this post, yet it feels like these photos were taken yesterday. Winter in May? Anything is possible in the AV!
[...] the “long way” home which I normally drove on Mondays to get to my class in Palmdale: the 58 Freeway East through Tehachapi — which, incidentally, I consider my “favorite” drive (the topography is [...]