road-related information

Today I learned that there's a fire near Lake Isabella outside of Bakersfield, so that would not be a good place to camp on the way to visit my parents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joshua Tree National Park looks like it's been fairly polluted lately, so that leaves Mojave National Preserve if we want to camp overnight. Otherwise, it's about a 14 hour drive, and that isn't any fun. Also, a good way to locate non-RV oriented campgrounds is to check recreation.gov, where you could make government-owned campground reservations, but you could just use it to find out where the government keeps all its campgrounds.

In other news, a young rabbit running full out across the road right in front of your car and wiping out would not be funny if you hit it. If you didn't hit it, and it apparently made an error during a course correction, thereby crashing and skidding part way across the road, that is pretty funny.