from Las Vegas drive to Death Valley. stop at Zabrinskie Point for the view. | michelangelo antonioni made a movie in 1970 called Zabrinskie Point | |
from Death Valley drive on highway 395 to Mono Lake. Mono Lake is an ancient lake over 1 million years old on the east side of the Sierra Nevadas. | at Mono Lake view the many "tufa towers" composed calcium-carbonate spires and knobs formed by the interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water. | |
from Mono Lake keep driving on highway 395 north towards the Sonora Pass. cross the Sierra Nevadas drive up steep switchbacks following a dotted white line. | once over the Sonora Pass the road leaves the mountains and crosses the foothills before entering the flattening central valley Modesto then interstate 5. |
The rainy season in California lasts from October through May. In the summer there is virtually no precipitation. The green grasses dry up. | The hills become ochre brown. Summer over the dried grasses and sage shrubs begin to burn. | |
is a farming community fifty miles north of San Francisco and ten miles east of the Pacific Ocean. In betweent he coastal fog moistened hills and the central valley sun desiccated hills. | Zoning regulations have contained the sprawl which produces shopping malls and tract homes creeping ever out wards. The sprawl is contained along highway 101. | |
The hills just outside the city limits are still primarily agricultural. Cattle stray on hillsides. | Rows of grape vines crawl up slopes resemble braided heads. The roads weave around rounded domes. | |
A steel rod sticks out from a coffee can filled with concrete to create the weight to hold the pole erect with nexus pad attached to the top. A video animation plays on the computer pad womanWalkingRotterdam. The weighted coffee can sits on the blacktop county road heading to Petaluma. | The video animation features a young woman walking down a street in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is originally from somewhere in Africa perhaps Surinam or may be South Africa. |