Little did I know at the time that one of the last photos (above) I took on my first day at the Salton Sea would be the last of my 2 month+ road trip.
I returned to the motel in Calipatria after dark and noticed several roaches on the walls of my room. At 10 pm as the office was closing I asked for a fly swatter and when I walked back to my room and looked up outside my door - I discovered the patio ceiling was covered with hundreds of baby roaches! (and no, the photo above isn't the hotel).
By midnight I convinced myself I'd not be able to sleep in that room. It was still over 100 degrees out as I started packing up. Sweat was dripping everywhere as I made a call and found a 24 hr gas station open in Brawley.
At 1 a.m. I started the long lonely drive into the mountains east of San Diego. There were only a couple of us on the Interstate at that hour. I arrived back in San Diego at 3:30 am - a trip that started in a massive AZ dust storm, ended 68 days later in a massive roach fest!
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