The city of Mojave, CA is not the prettiest place. But on the east side of town is America’s largest wind farm. 290 turbines produce 3 gigawatts of electricity. The windmills vary in size from, say, 80 feet in height to a couple of hundred. For scale look at the steps at the base of this guy on the right
For some reason security was non-existant and we could ride right up to them.
The wind was blowing hard and watching them rotate in apparent unison was mesmerizing. It brought back memories of the vast solo windmill at Pinscher Creek that stood apart from the others and seemed to stand sentinel to the Rockies. They’re so white, wow.
Sorry there’s a rainbow in the next one, we’re not going all Californian down here, it was an unfortunate accident
Then into the San Gabriel Mountains
We picked a small mountain road, the Hughes Lake road, up and over the hills, until we hit a ‘closed road’ sign and had to reverse back to the crest and a good road further south. We passed Elizabeth Lake, ignored the Park signs and went for a ride in the sand. Here’s Lucinda wagging her hips. She’s such a bad girl
Another perfect sport bike road, smaller cc’s though as it was very tight in places
Then down to meet highway 126 through a citrus valley into Ventura as the light failed