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Originally Posted by flipper35
Further south in the Imperial Valley is where it is hot in CA. Well, Death Valley gives it a run for its money.
Flagstaff and Sedona are pretty decent weather wise and have a natural beauty.
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Yea, I drove through some of that desert back in 2007 when I went to San Diego. As I was going down the mountain from Flagstaff toward Phoenix I noticed a large plume of smoke up ahead. As I got closer I saw a Highway Patrol officer had the interstate closed off, and was pointing to a little two lane road going west.
There was a 18 wheeler fuel tanker truck burning and it was sideways across the north bound lane but the fire department was fighting the fire from the south bound lane.
I had no choice but head west. It took me to some neat little towns getting ready for the 4th or July parades. I ended up on some wonderful mountain roads. I ended up going through your old haunts of El Centro and I was surprised to see the huge areas of farms and then into a real dessert on I-8 on to that long "hill" up the mountainside into San Diego. That trip was why I upgraded my AC system. I knew it was going to be brutal getting there. I did the full Griffiths upgrade in 2007, and it was the very best upgrade I have ever done on my 911. It made it a real all summer driver.
The drive back home was right through Phoenix and the "valley of the sun" and the AC struggled but it kept me cool in the 100+ July heat.