CALIFORNIA - Last stop before the big day (Aug.31st)

As we were getting ready to hit the road again in California, we knew that this night would be the last we would spend away from Seattle. I personally did not know what to expect from the road because I had heard that the pacific coast highway, as pretty as it is, may be a rough road. Then again, I thought that since the Civic had been through the Sierra Nevada without a problem, it would definitely survive a few turns and slopes!

Au petit matin du départ pour notre dernière portion de route avant la grande arrivée prévue à Seattle le lendemain. La route de la côte est réputée pour jouer quelques tours aux plus ambitieux, mais je soupçonne que si titine (ma tuture) a pu grimper la Sierra Nevada sans péter un joint de culasse, alors cette route à virage ne serait que du gâteau!

While we started going further North in California, farmers' lands spread out hundreds of miles before our eyes...Small trees, tomatoes, peanut farms etc. We were in the heart of the US food chain's crib! I will never eat something from California again the same way, at least because I know where it is from, but also because I remember the acrid smell of the pesticides floating in the air, hum =(

Le coeur des champs de production de l'Amérique...Le berceau de leur chaîne alimentaire!

Tomato Truck. We hoped that these were used for ketchup, because I cannot imagine that the ones at the bottom would pass the "Publix waxy appearance screening test" (man, how much I am going to miss Publix and their sandwiches!)

Espérons que les tomates du dessous servent pour le ketchup

What will be most memorable of that day for me will be the colors of the Nature before us.

Ça c'est un détail qui m'aura marquée lors de notre passage sur cette route: a beauté des couleurs de la campagne ce jour la, avec le soleil d'automne et le ciel azur.

This guy's smart. I'll do that too next time around instead of packing up boxes, hahaha!

Lui il a tout compris, la prochîne fois j'embarque ma maison avec moi, au lieu de me casser la tête à faire des cartons!

See that road in the horizon? Yup, that's where we're going!

This actually looks like Burgundy...without the rain!

Symbole de la dichotomie Américaine. Pourquoi changer les bonne vieilles habitudes? Après la promotion d'une énergie alternative à travers les éoliennes, retour à l'exploitation de vieux puits de pétrole anciennement abandonnés!