We went for a drive around Salton Sea in California, a lake with an interesting history: apparently created by accident from overflow of an irrigation canal, and has been slowly shrinking as modern farming uses water more efficiently.

Here’s a map of our route, going south first:

We stopped for lunch at a Mexican diner attached to a casino, then filled up the truck gas at a station that was mostly populated by ATVs:

The drive was just flat empty desert for most of the way south:

But with some farmland around the south side of the lake:

We stopped at Bombay Beach, which used to be a booming tourist destination in the 1950s. Nowadays, it’s a “living ghost town”.

On the beach, there are a number of art installations: