Recently I was fortunate enough to visit both Carrizo Plain National Monument as well as Yosemite National Park. If you've never been to either I recommend a visit, they offer some of the most stunning landscapes and wildlife around.
The Carrizo Plain, 100 airline miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles, California is an area by-passed by time.
Soda Lake, its centerpiece, is a glistening bed of white salt, set within a vast open grassland, rimmed by mountains. The plain is home to diverse communities of wildlife and plant species, and is an area culturally important to Native Americans.
It is traversed by the San Andreas fault, which has carve