In this fourth flashback we will show you is one of our favorite places; the sandy dunes in the most Southern part of California, near the Mexican border. They are called the Imperial Dunes and is the largest area with sand in California approximately measuring 75 km long and 10 km wide. (It’s a lot of sand!)
Many people spend their weekends driving around in the sandy hills on all sorts of vehicles with as many wheels as possible
Searching for sand
Late October 2011 we left San Diego behind and Tobi drove us East once more. Christian had done the research and we headed for a small town called Salton Sea about 150 miles from San Diego. Early saturday morning we left with Tobi’s interior ready to sleep in and with cameras fully charged and prepared to capture every little good thing on the way.
The Anza Borrego Desert starts on the other side of the first mountains and is a large national park with many different scenes to visit. From flat sandy planes with cacti scattered all over the place to mountains with grass and pine trees – there is something new to look at all the time.
Later the desserts turns into the Imperial Sand Dunes and then there is nothing but sand as far as the eye can se.
The two travellers wearing a lot less clothes then these days in Greenland
Here are some of the places we saw
A cacti forest in the Anza Borrego Desert
The sun has a lot of power even in the end of October
Sand dunes and a setting sun
Snow or sand - it's fun to play wit
Lots of sand
Toby at sunrise in the dessert
There is a small video of the trip – and please enjoy every last minute in the good company of Tobi the Most Wonderful Truck
Isolated is beautiful
For those who think about the contrast from California to Upernavik, there is definitely a great difference in temperature but Christian came home one day and said ‘ It’s such a beautiful clear weather today, just like in San Diego’
When you see the pictures of California and all the crowded places near big cities like LA, SD and SF it seems a world apart. But California has some very remote and uninhabited places just like in Greenland.
Although California’s populations density of 84 people/km2 is closer to the Danish one of 126 people/km2 the remote areas seem more like the Greenlandic isolation where you can go for days without meeting anyone except for maybe a polar bear.
Greenland has the lowest population density of any country; 0.027 p/km2 and you just know that if you get lost up here nobody will find you, so we stay in our little icy island.
Another photo of our view over the wild Arctic
The view is changing every day in this inhospitable environment
Anne Marie
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