A month ago, an employee of mine recommended that Caroline and I read East of Eden by John Steinbeck. We finished it while we were out on the road, and seeing we were passing Salinas, we decided to stop at the Steinbeck Center. We were here right as they opened; we had to be as we had over 700 miles to drive today before getting back to Arizona.

That’s right, we went to the National Steinbeck Center, and all Caroline got to do was ride the plastic pony that didn’t even move or make a sound. The folks who built this place could have learned a thing or two from Walt Disney down there in Los Angeles.

Last photo of our nine-day road trip as we drove across central California, heading back to the desert southwest.