A series of pictures taken while driving in the desert. Click the picture for an enlargement - some of the pictures won't enlarge, I don't know the solution to this problem.
I-40, which starts at Barstow, CA, and ends in North Carolina near the Atlantic Ocean, runs through deserts for many of the miles it covers. The first section from Barstow to Arizona is not flat, as we tend to think of deserts, and there are many grades up and down to get over the multiple, but not very lofty, mountain ranges.
On a weekday the traffic is normally light. There seem to be more trucks in the early morning and late in the afternoon.
With the truck and motorhome/boat behind me it almost looks like I have the road to myself.
From a close by hill the desert stretches out to the mountains miles away.
Most of the time there is haze in the air, not from moisture, but from dust and, more recently, smog from even the smallest of towns.
The haze lightens the color of the mountains and I can't make the mountains darker in the pictures without darkening the foreground. This is a more accurate view - despite the sunshine and blue sky, the mountains can be somewhat ominous and glowering.
Up and up and up, the road cut shows how much earth was moved to make the grades more reasonable.
At the top of the grade with a truck laboring up the eastbound side.
Over the top the road stretches out to another mountain range to be crossed.
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