Out in the
wild blue,
extended coffee at
White Rabbit with
John, and
another fine time,
eventually
taking
leave
to
take
on
the
rest of the
grading for the DVC Summer 2014 Semester,
and, miraculously,
submitting same online, at a distance.
An extended process, but finally on the road,
discovering the culinary joys of Jersey Mike's Subs (reasonably authentic hoagies),
then
proceed
10 west,
angling
northwest
on
215
towards the Transverse Range,
merging into 15,
north into Cajon Canyon,
past the Lone Pine / San Andreas Fault and
the
surreal
undulating
lines
of
Mormon Rocks,
to the Ampitheatre and over the Pass,
395 into
the Joshua-Tree-strewn
Mojave,
the point-of-no-return
Kramer
Hills,
west on 58 past Boron,
into
the
Tehachapis,
windmills,
yuccas,
the
high
rocky,
expansive
Monolith
Valley,
lonely
vistas
rollercoastering
down
towards
Keene
Buttes,
darkness towards Buttonwillow, north again,
now on 5, Kamm Avenue once more,
580,
680,
collapsing into belated rest....
