Back to Los Angeles

Friday
We have now arrived back in the Los Angeles area, after a three day drive which has taken us from the coast, on Route 101, through a vine growing region, to Paso Robles. At Paso Robles we stopped at the Fairground, we were the only people there and it was very quiet, though quite exposed as it is really a converted car park. In the evening we went out for a meal to McLintocks, which was just off the rather nice/quaint town square, where we had a plate of the daily special - Tuesday Chicken, a roasted half chicken with 'fixin's', we had one meal between us and an extra salad, which the divided into two plates. We were both full at the end of it. a great meal.
On Wednesday we drove down to the I5 from Paso Robles and then across to Lancaster. The scenery and weather now changed, approaching the I5 the ground became drier and as we rose higher the clouds started to close in. Once on the I5 we started to climb further and became enclosed in quite thick fog. When we headed East to Lancaster we cleared the fog and on looking back we could see that the road through the mountains was indeed covered with cloud. We now travelled through desert on a very straight road, in bright sunshine, but now the wind was increasing and becoming quite gusty, blowing the tumble weed and sand across the road.
In Lancaster we stayed at the Antelope Valley Fairground. Another converted car park with hookups, but OK. Lancaster is quite strange in that it seems to be huge, but with very few houses, as though someone laid out the infrastructure for a large city and no one moved there. Appearances can be deceptive, because the town is laid out on such a grand scale the several thousand people are spread quite thinly. Interesting place.
On Thursday we set out on the third part of our drive, through what I assume is the South Western part of the Mojave Desert, to reach I15 at Victorville and then drop down into San Bernardino, where we had booked a camp site for the weekend so that we can clean and make ready our rig for storage prior to flying home on Monday.