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WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET THE GRASSLANDS

After leaving my coastal home in Carpinteria, California, I head northeast on Highway 33, then east on Highway 166, and finally take a left-hand turn on Soda Lake Road and into the Carrizo Plain National Monument. Every time I do it, it feels as

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