Burgers and Windmills

Just on the brink of the Mojave, we came across our first sight of operational windmills used for generating local power.  They looked like a set of child's jacks tossed across the hillsides.  It is really heartening to see the large number of windmills that are in use throughout the Mojave and into the Sonora Desert as well.

One of California's best assets is the In-n-Out burger.  Family owned and operated, a private company since at least the ‘40s, these people have stuck with doing what they do best, which is providing great-tasting hamburgers made with the freshest ingredients at low prices.  The menu is basic.  There is a choice of a hamburger, cheeseburger, or a double-patty cheeseburger (the double-double), fries (you can watch the guy chopping up the potatoes and throwing them into the fryer), shakes in 3 flavours, and about 3 types of sodas.  Sounds simple, it IS simple, so why can't somebody get this right in Canada, too?  We were at the In-N-Out in Palm Desert, with the parking lot full of cars, the drive-thru with at least 25 cars waiting, and the McDonald’s across the street had literally 2 cars in their lot.  Speaks for itself.  More has to be said about the In-n-Out burger itself.  Fresh, fresh bun, tasty melted cheese in generous proportion, a thick slab of crispy iceberg lettuce (not shredded, not chopped, it’s an actual slab), a good slice of fresh, crunchy onion, normal size beef patty that is NOT greasy, and a great-tasting sauce complete the burger.  Pure heaven!