Part way home

The Festival is over. We packed up and left the campsite. Some people left yesterday and more than half were gone before us. The washboard road was still washboard and slow. Instead of retracing our way in, we headed south through Trona and Ridgecrest to get back the US395. We hand some wind, but once we got on US395, it got much worse. We normally drive at 60 mph, by the time we stopped for lunch at Coso Junction, we were down to 35mph. Les was exhausted, so he took a nap before eating lunch. The wind had easy up a little, so we set the cruse control to 45 mph. Most everyone else was running 65mph plus. When we got to the new construction zone that bypasses Olancha, we found a big accident that was being worked. It was two pickup trucks each hauling a travel trailer. One truck and trailer had both rolled. The other trailer was on its side and truck was still attached and its rear wheels were off the ground. The accident was likely the result of high speed and a big gust of wind making a contact between the vehicles. We gassed up in Bishop again and are now back at April & Brent’s place for the night.Read more