July 11 - Crater Lake, OR to Monterey, CA

Today was a driving day. We left Crater Lake at about 830am, and arrived in Monterey about twelve hours (and a few major road construction projects) later. It was very warm driving south along I5, with temperatures of about 100F. The landscapes were beautiful in their scrubbiness, and somewhat surreal in the way they were transformed by irrigation.

It was incredibly refreshing to reach Monterey with its ocean moderated climate - for the first time since leaving Crater Lake we stopped sweating.