{"id":1216,"date":"2009-08-11T20:44:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2009-08-11T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:47:28","slug":"day-1-san-jose-to-kingman-ariz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/day-1-san-jose-to-kingman-ariz\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: San Jose to Kingman, Ariz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the drive south on I-5 is about as expected: hills on one side, farms on the other. Somebody put up a bunch of signs on blank farmland blaming Congress for turning it into a dustbowl.  Presumably the actual farmer was blameless. <\/p>\n<p>Things started getting interesting when we started seeing the Joshua trees outside Bakersfield on the way to the Mojave Desert. But mainly it&#8217;s extremely  hot. Like 110-plus (best guess; I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever been outside in heat this hot before). <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a dry heat inside a pizza oven, too. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3813343090\/\" title=\"Road to Joshua Tree National Park by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2578\/3813343090_e0bcdbd9fa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Road to Joshua Tree National Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We pulled over for a second to snap a few pix on a road heading down toward Joshua Tree National Park. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3813343562\/\" title=\"Mountain range by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2549\/3813343562_e68b55264b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" alt=\"Mountain range\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This mountain range was near the California-Arizona border. Terrain definitely gets better as you move into Arizona. Still bathing-in-a-volcano hot, but nicer looking. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3813343878\/\" title=\"Colorado River by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2469\/3813343878_b6b058fe65.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" alt=\"Colorado River\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Colorado River, the border between California and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3813344860\/\" title=\"Arizona, just past California border by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3446\/3813344860_f4965f8a0c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Arizona, just past California border\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Desert scene from a rest stop on the Arizona side. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3812531151\/\" title=\"Near Kingman, Arizona by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2537\/3812531151_8924de9836.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" alt=\"Near Kingman, Arizona\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The buttes are starting to show up at as we get close to Kingman. <\/p>\n<p>Next stop: Santa Rosa, NM.  Should be some of the best scenery of the whole drive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the drive south on I-5 is about as expected: hills on one side, farms on the other. Somebody put up a bunch of signs on blank farmland blaming Congress for turning it into a dustbowl. Presumably the actual farmer&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/day-1-san-jose-to-kingman-ariz\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}