We left San Diego at seven thirty. About thirty miles out we struck the desert and we’ve been on it ever since. First we went thru rocky hills that looked like great huge heaps of stones. We came out to sage brush and then we got into the mountains of sand. Clean sand. But we were still on paved road. Just after we left the town we hit dirt road and we couldn’t make very good road. We had hoped to get to Phoenix to night but the road was so bad that we only got to Gila Bend, a little one horse town in the middle of the desert. After we left the sand the land got greener until we got to El Centro. After that we had sage brush all the way. We stopped at El Centro for ice cream and had lunch at Yuma. We got to Gila Bend at six thirty by our time but we hadn’t considered that this was rocky mountain time and that we were an hour behind so it was nearly seven thirty. I’m getting terribly fat and I’ll have to cut down on my eating.
Jane's Notes: From the map they seem to be following the route of today's I-8. Gila Bend is near Sonoran Desert Nat'l Monument.
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