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We drove past hundreds--if not thousands--of turbines on our way from Barstow to Salinas
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The Central Valley portion of CA can be incredibly bleak
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Where there weren't farms, there were derricks
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We mostly passed veggie farms, but there were some vineyards, too
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Along some of the more desolate stretches of highway, tumbleweeds had accumulated in large numbers
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Beautiful, rolling pastures
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Soup menu in the window of Norma's Family Restaurant, Salinas
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This place had 2 chickens out front even though it was in the middle of Salinas.
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Salinas Main Street, as seen from the National Steinbeck Center
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Menu at Sang's
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National Steinbeck Center, with its very clever emblem
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Performing on the free piano outside the Steinbeck Center
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"May Evening, Monterey," by Lester Boronda (ca. 1930)
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Cannery Row
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The wonders of the sea
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Monterey Bay
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Gulls in Monterey Bay
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"Ruins" at the edge of Cannery Row
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One of the more dilapidated buildings along Cannery Row
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There were several plaques like these fixed to the ground along Cannery Row
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All the drains were labeled with reminders that the sewers are connected to the ocean
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An interesting variety of tandem bicycle
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Our lodge at Redwood Glen
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The view off my balcony at Redwood Glen
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View over the gorge
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Coastal redwoods along the path connecting Redwood Glen to nearby parks
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Fruticose lichens
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Portrait of a redwood
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Me, and a coastal redwood
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Some of the wildlife at Redwood Glen
