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J. Growth
1987
journal
142.
California to Arizona
May 19 Left Berkeley at 10:00 am for a field trip
start
to SW United States. Drove to Oceanside
mileage
= 46895
to stay at my parent's home overnight.
The weather was cloudy through most
of the route, but clearing past C.A.
May 20 Left my parent's home in Oceanside,
start
Calif., bound for the Huachuca Mts. of
mileage
49245
S.E. Arizona. Past the clouds along
the coast, the weather turned dismal
and gray in the coastal mountain range.
The Calif + W. Ariz desert was
clear and rather mild (~80°) until
the higher desert of central Ariz.,
where the clouds gathered and
the wind was strong + gusting out of
the S. + W. directions. I took Hwy.
5 to San Diego, to 80S, to
Interstate 8. Rain + storms began
in the late afternoon (or had been
going on long before I got there) around
Tucson. At Tucson and vicinity,
it was rainstorming, and I picked
up some supplies there, around 5:00.
From Tucson, I drove first E on
I8 to Hwy 90. Took 90 S to
Sierra Vista. By the time I got