On the Road: January 12, 13, 16, 17. A good road trip makes room for the journey where experience becomes the destination….
On the Road in California, January 12, 13, and 16, 2023 is a seven part short film that meditates on the sites and sounds found while driving from Northern California through a rain-soaked State to the Mojave Desert and back again.
Sights along the way include the Glory Hole spillway at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, the night lights of the Tehachapi Wind Farm, and the freight trains of the BNFS Railway while crossing the Los Angeles Aquaduct at old State Route 58. Then the return back to Northwestern California, through torrential rain in Merced, to clearing sunset skies over the Sacramento River and Interstate 5. California is beautiful.Dawn at the Glory Hole, Whiskeytown Reservoir, California, January 17, 2023 – 24×36 pigment print.US Borax, Boron, California, January 16, 2023 – 24×36 pigment print.
Twelve selections from January 13 – 17 click to view.
Tehachapi Wind Farm with BNSF Railway, Mojave, California, January 13, 2023.State Route 62 at Interstate 10, California, January 13, 2023.San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm from State Route 62 at Interstate 10, California, January 13, 2023.US Borax, Boron, California, January 16, 2023.On the Way Home, I-5, California, January 16, 2023.Dawn at the Glory Hole No 2, Whiskeytown Reservoir, California, January, 17 2023.The Glory Hole, Whiskeytown Lake Reservoir, California, January 17, 2023.Oak Bottom Boat Ramp, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California, January 17, 2023.Tree Branch at High Water, Oak Bottom Boat Ramp, Whiskeytown, California, January 17, 2023.Fairview Marina, Trinity Reservoir, California, January 17, 2023.At the Fairview Boat Ramp, Trinity Reservoir, California, January 17, 2023.No Launching Beyond this Point, Fairview Boat Ramp, Trinity Lake Reservoir, California, January 17, 2023.
No Launching Beyond this Point, Fairview Boat Ramp, Trinity Lake, California, January 17, 2023.
On January 17, 2023, Trinity Lake’s reservoir surface water elevation was 2,221.72 feet above sea level and containied 737,000 acre-feet of water. That’s 148.3 feet below its crest, as the reservoir’s usable capacity is 2,437,700 acre-feet. From January 1 through 17, the Bureau of Reclamation reported 11.04 inches of rain, raising the reservoir’s surface by 27.25 feet, or 196,484 acre-feet – 30.23% full.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train descends from the Tehachapi Pass near Mojave, California. According to Wikipedia, about 36 trains pass each day. That seemed about right for January 13, 2023.
In the background is the Tehachapi wind farm. Among the largest in the world, it produces enough electricity to power over a million homes. According to the California Wind Energy Association, in 2021, it produced 3160 megawatts of power. It’s California’s largest producer of wind energy.
