Tucson and the seven-hour return trip: It's been a long while since I've seen sunlight streaming down from the sky like this... It's also been a while since I've actually seen weather. That grey you see streaming down from the sky on the right is actually rain. This Methodist church in Tucson was actually built on top of an old Titan missile silo. They took out the missile, filled the giant hole with concrete and built a house of worship on top of it. The desert shore is purty... There really isn't anything between Phoenix and Los Angeles. Even in Phoenix, the signs only list the next major thing the freeway will pass through as Los Angeles. As high as the numbers on my speedometer were... ...they never got as high as the numbers on the thermometer outside. Damn, it was freakin' hot in the desert! Sunset in the desert. Sunset on the Coachella Valley. The wind farm outside of Palm Springs... in this picture, it almost looks like a spooooooky wind farm.