Trans America Cycling Day 4 - Brawley, CA to Blythe, CA
The link to today's route and statistics is found here . As we cycled out of Brawley we saw up close evidence of world-class agricultural operations. To satisfy America's appetite for sweets, we passed fields of sugar beets. Imperial Valley sugar beets satisfy the sweet tooth To help satisfy American's need for hamburgers, California's Imperial Valley has about 400,000 cattle on feed, and in terms of revenue production they are the region's predominant agricultural product. We cycled past Mesquite Cattle Feeders Inc., which feeds about 35,000 head. Randy from Oklahoma and others were misted by yellow water blown by the wind from a cattle truck. After clean-up at Motel 8, he was allowed to join the group for dinner at The Sizzler, where he ordered steak for revenge. Cycling past Mesquite Cattle Feeders with 35,000 head The Imperial Valley is the largest alfalfa growing region in the world. Many of the hay bales that we passed on the route are b