Trapped in Tar?

The morning came early and we were off....to see Joshua Tree National Park. We cut the gas a little tight and should have filled up in Indio. When we got out to the Park, there were not exactly any services. And we had to go about a billion miles into the Park to see the first joshua tree. So....we checked out the visitor's center and had a little desert experience (I am looking for a gas station). They asked if we had seen a roadrunner. I said I think I hit one with the car a few miles back.....I didn't know they were so sensitive about the roadrunners (the woman ranger didn't crack a smile). As we drove toward LA afterward, we came to a windmill farm that was huge! There were hundreds of wind generators going side by side.




We had a nice lunch in the Buena Park area with J.T. and Britney Steele (he is in law school there). They had a new baby daughter in January. It is fun to talk about Honduras. We could do it for hours. Such wonderful memories. It was a beautiful day and we have a good navigator (KR), so we made it through LA alright and went right to the La Brea Tar Pits. We even found parking right on the street next to the gate. A very interesting place. Lots of fossil bones from the ice age-era have been found in the pits and they are on display in the museum. Methane gas still bubbles from the water of the pits and you can imagine something getting stuck in them even today. As the sun set, we headed down Wilshire to the beach and then caught the Pacific Coast Highway along Malibu. People were surfing, but the beaches were deserted. As we rounded the corner, we entered Oxnard\Ventura, where we ate dinner and stayed the night.