- All packed up, I finally leave Baker and ride over the I-15 freeway and enter Mojave National Preserve in the brilliant sunshine
- The 10-ton bike waits at the Amtrak bus stop at the San José train station
- My Amtrak bus out of San José leaves me at Stockton, where I transfer to an Amtrak train to Bakersfield
- I spend 4.5 hours on the Amtrak San Joaquin train, occasionally staring at the tray-table instructions in front of me
- Across the tracks from the Stockton Amtrak station is an old house that looks abandoned, but isn't