We had a leisurely breakfast at the restaurant by our motel before we left Holbrook AZ this morning. We got away about 8::00am (we forgot that that part of AZ doesn’t use Daylight savings time so we never got to change our clocks today).
We were amazed at the varied scenery as we traveled across AZ and the dropped south to just north of Phoenix and then west on I-10 and then dropped south again on state highway 85 to I-8 and then west to Yuma and on into San Diego. We saw flat lands, mountains, desert, forests, all kinds of rock formations cactus, and finally the ocean. We went up and down numerous times and seemed to oscillate between sea level and 4000 feet. We had lunch in a little desert town in AZ at the intersection of 85 and I-8. We were stopped by the border patrol checkpoints several times (since we were very near the Mexico border much of the time) and were stopped for plant and produce inspection at the entrance to CA. We were busted for having illegal Whole Foods apples which they kept and said they were going to cut up and look for worms. We got some great pictures but haven’t uploaded them yet. Hope to soon.
We are staying Ocean Beach at the Ocean Beach Hotel in San Diego. We are right across the street from the beach. We had a nice dinner nearby, watched the two presidential candidates at the half-time of Monday Night Football and then did a little grocery shopping.
Will be doing some more exploring and beach walking tomorrow.