Elko, Nev., to West Sacramento, Calif.
Posted by: Isabel in 2008 USA Road Trip, tags: california, nevada, palm trees, state signsToday was mostly just a driving day, so I don’t have too many interesting stories to report. We began the day in Nevada and drove through miles and miles of deserty Nevada-ness:
We took a quick detour through Reno, but there was a huge street festival going on, so we couldn’t really check anything out. Sorry, Reno!
Shortly thereafter, we found ourselves in California!!
That was an important milestone for us… the goal was coast to coast, and now we’ve hit our west-most state. Hooray!
Shortly after we crossed into California, we had to go through this checkpoint thingy, which looked like a tollbooth plaza but wasn’t. A guy there asked us where we were from and whether we had any animals, plants, or fresh fruit in the car (um… is crossing the state line of California like going to Canada??), then inspected our trunk for gypsy moths before allowing us to pass. It was weird. Can someone explain to me what that was about?
Anyway, we passed inspection, so we were allowed to drive along and enjoy the sunset and palm trees along the way to Sacramento.
We’re now at the lovely Sunset Inn & Suites in West Sacramento. Tomorrow we will touch the Pacific!
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They do the same kind of inspection thing when you go to Australia. Trying to prevent introduction of some fungus that wipes out the wine grapes. Who knows what CA is working on.
Those things in the first photo on this page are hoodoos (I think). The wind does some odd things with soft rock.
I forgot about the fruit inspection! It was always really annoying when we were little, because we would drive from Phoenix to California for vacation and obviously we would bring snacks in the car… and sometimes we would have to throw stuff away if we hadn’t eaten it all by the time we got to the border. I am not sure what exactly they are looking for, but my dad always told me they were worried people would bring some sort of fruit flies or weird disease into California and kill all the crops.