title	California Desert: El Centro, Imperial Valley, California, US - 24th September 2005
intro	With nearly a whole weekend to play around with, and armed with a V-6 Chrysler Sebring convertible, Nosher takes a trip out to the desert east of San Diego. The drive goes from San Diego along Interstate 8, then off on Route 98 to Calexico, a few miles from the Mexico border towards Yuma. The road then turns inland towards Heber and El Centro. The centre of the desert is ragingly hot - in the region of 37°C - and it doesn't take long before the lid has to be closed on the convertible as any longer in the sun would probably have led to 3rd-degree burns.
imgp1106	Scrub off I-8
imgp1109	A solitary actually-green tree
imgp1112	A truck stops for a break
imgp1114	A gravel road
imgp1116	Telegraph pole and cloud, near Jacumba
imgp1118	More desert scrub
imgp1122	A selfie of Nosher and the Sebring convertible
imgp1123	Wisteria Candy Cottage hoarding
imgp1125	Desert scrub and a petrol station
imgp1126	Spiky cactus and the Wisteria sign
imgp1128	Restrictions in the desert
imgp1129	Vanishing-point road
imgp1130	Desert Ocotillo plant, Route 98
imgp1134	A Budget rent-a-van trundles by
imgp1142	Emergency water spots in the desert
imgp1146	The Sebring convertible
imgp1148	Classic vanishing-point view of Route 98
imgp1154	Cars on the ribbon of a highway
imgp1158	Massed electricity pylons on Route 98
imgp1160	The pylons stride off into the desert
imgp1162	An abandoned dairy near Calexico
imgp1164	The abandoned dairy
imgp1168	The dairy's front-door, all shot-up
imgp1169	Smashed 1930s-style windows
imgp1171	Inside the dairy
imgp1172	A curious house-letterbox on a stick
imgp1173	Loco 7675 - a big lump of metal
imgp1174	A beat-up train at El Centro
imgp1175	Train and hut at El Centro
imgp1176	More dusty rail-yard action
imgp1177	Warehouse and Watertower, El Centro
imgp1178	Heavy locomotives
imgp1179	A line of spare wheel-sets rusts slowly away
imgp1182	Rusty wheels and the loco "Cotton Belt"
imgp1184	Loco 7275 - Cotton Belt
imgp1185	More rusty wheels
imgp1187	A deserted warehouse
imgp1188	An El Centro railroad crossing
imgp1189	The railway yard
imgp1190	Graffiti tags on a locomotive
imgp1191	A loco between some other engines
imgp1192	A Union Pacific train
imgp1193	7300 and 7655 El Paso
imgp1194	Looking back into El Centro
imgp1195	A homeless dude has a sleep
imgp1197	Pizza Hut sign, quaintly spaced