baker, california, 2/06
We missed our connecting flight to Los Angeles, and would've had to wait it out a while for the next one, so we rented a car and headed out across the desert, stopping in Baker -- a strip of abandoned and less-abandoned restaurants and gas stations -- for improbably delicious gyros. The world's tallest thermometer (bottom pic) -- or so they claim -- didn't seem to be working, though sure was weird lookin'.
