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Last night's sunset at Baker, California, home of the world's tallest thermometer, was a pleasant pinkish glow

3209-worlds-tallest-thermom.jpg After the Amtrak train ride to Bakersfield, an Amtrak bus dropped me off at Baker, California late yesterday afternoonThumbnailsThis morning, after breakfast buffet at the Big Boy, I ride the bridge over the freeway and enter Mojave National PreserveAfter the Amtrak train ride to Bakersfield, an Amtrak bus dropped me off at Baker, California late yesterday afternoonThumbnailsThis morning, after breakfast buffet at the Big Boy, I ride the bridge over the freeway and enter Mojave National PreserveAfter the Amtrak train ride to Bakersfield, an Amtrak bus dropped me off at Baker, California late yesterday afternoonThumbnailsThis morning, after breakfast buffet at the Big Boy, I ride the bridge over the freeway and enter Mojave National PreserveAfter the Amtrak train ride to Bakersfield, an Amtrak bus dropped me off at Baker, California late yesterday afternoonThumbnailsThis morning, after breakfast buffet at the Big Boy, I ride the bridge over the freeway and enter Mojave National PreserveAfter the Amtrak train ride to Bakersfield, an Amtrak bus dropped me off at Baker, California late yesterday afternoonThumbnailsThis morning, after breakfast buffet at the Big Boy, I ride the bridge over the freeway and enter Mojave National Preserve

It was still 92 degrees when I had supper at Los Dos Toritos, one of the only non-chain restaurants in this freeway-stop town with far more gas stations per capita than most towns. Great home-style meal as always.