to keep the wind off arrived at Westmoreland at 230 p.m. only a small place. decided to go on 65 miles to Indio. after leaving Westmoreland. the wind blew a gale and the sand blew every way in about 5 miles it blew the top of our car 15 miles farther was Kaires Springs only a gas station the wind blew for another 25 miles then quietened down we took a snap of the desert and saw the Salton sea a few miles away it is 240 ft below sea level at one place a (Gas Station) it was 200 feet below. next place was Oasis. some fruit. dates and vegetables grown here. a few miles farther we struck another wind storm. to cap it all we had to detour about 6 or 7 miles through the sans, some times you could hardly see for sand blowing. when we got back to the hghway we had passed rthe storm and it was not blowing any. arrived at Coachella 5 miles farther in lots of dates grown here. then on 4 miles farther to Indio, arrived about 520 p.m 85 miles. about 60 of it across the desert. pavement all the way. stopped at the Indio Hotel. $5 00 for the night

Mar 10th Left Indio at 9 am. saw a nice date palm Grove must have been a hundred acres or more also some fields of onions