Today was partly scenic in the early hours and largely boring the rest of the day with a mix of terror and white knuckles driving through Oakland and Berkley, CA on the way South and East.  Our destination is Hoover Dam.  We enjoyed the PCH, but it got wearisome after several hours of twisting up and down over and around.  So we headed inland towards San Francisco; we could not go into the city because the Bay bridge is closed–we would have been trapped and had to go around.

The two pix tell the story of the beach and the interstate in middle California heading towards Nevada.  We stopped for the night in a nice Sleep Inn in Bakersfield, CA, home of Merle Haggard, the Nashville of the West and incidently an oil town at the lower end of the San Joaquin valley.

We are glad to be cool (it was 100 degrees on the interstate) and rested.