2020 Pashnit Touring

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Santa Rosa Rd skips over to Lompoc

In case you were wondering where your vegetables are coming from:

 

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One last road, San Miguelito Rd is a dead end road headed out of Lompoc. A view of the ocean at the end of a dead end.

 

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Too hazy at the dead end to see the ocean.

 

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What these are used for - this big - I have no idea.

End of day's ride,

500 mile 12 hour ride planned for the last day.

 

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Last Day...

Fifteen or so years ago, a ride buddy of mine told me Highway 178 was a super great motorcycle road. Since ridden it a bunch of times & included it in my Southern Foothills Tour. Couple years ago rode this and we got snowed on at the higher elevations.

Yup, we're headed up that narrow canyon

 

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Highway 178 - Kern River Canyon

 

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Kern River just a trickle this time of year

 

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Lake Isabella

 

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Anytime you see Joshua Trees, elevations are climbing, they only grow at high desert elevations. Just reminds me of U2. It's said some types of Joshua Trees can grow to over a 1000 years old.

Desert riding involves long stretches of nothing.

 

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Highway 395 runs along the CA-NV border for nearly the entire length & runs for 1300 miles north to south bisecting the United States & runs all the up to the Canadian border.

 

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Museum of Western Film History, No time to go in today, but maybe I'll plan it into a tour someday.

Scoping out another museum - every small town has one.

 

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Also wanted to check out the Laws Railroad Historic Site & Museum near Bishop, but it was kind of a bust. A four-year-old would love it, but didn't strike me as a tour group destination.

It's also smokey out. Fires still burning in the Sierra.

 

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Highway 395 has a series of dead-end spider roads that head into the Sierra Nevada range. Most run up to lakes

but the views are tremendous. Mount Whitney Portal is one of these sleeper roads. Super cool.

 

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This road made the news a few months back in July when a house sized chuck of rock fell off on of these jumbles of rock from a 5.8 earthquake and landed down in the camping area.

 

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Next one up is Onion Valley Rd. Same deal. Amazing views.

 

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Just up the road is Manzanar War Internment Camp. Gotta admit, my public school education never taught me about this sort of thing in my US History class. Internment Camps in America, wait, what? But it's fascinating stuff and it's only recently in last 1-2 decades, park system has begun to rebuild the camp the way it looked in the early 1940s.

 

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Just up the road is Manzanar War Internment Camp. Gotta admit, my public school education never taught me about this sort of thing in my US History class. Internment Camps in America, wait, what? But it's fascinating stuff and it's only recently in last 1-2 decades, park system has begun to rebuild the camp the way it looked in the early 1940s.

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We had them here in Canada too.

 

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They were all sent here. And several other camps mostly in desolate places in the American Southwest to wait out the war years.

Manzanar is one of ten internment camps that interned 120,000 Japanese-Americans in 1942-1945. I've been working on an article for this place, but set it down and worked on other articles. Reminder to finish the piece. Must visit if you are in the area.