The Imperial Valley-Salton Sea region is an endlessly fascinating area to me for many reasons: the agriculture, the infrastructure that delivers one-fifth the (legislated) flow of the Colorado River to this remote desert valley, the unusual nature of some of the people you encounter, and just the way I feel very close to history here.…
The Imperial Valley is quite fascinating to me for many reasons, the biggest one perhaps being that it is as if you can look down the streets and see history. The Imperial Valley was one of the last remaining frontiers left in the West around the turn of the 20th century; these settlers endured the…
One of the most-viewed posts here on the photoblog is on the Imperial Dam and All-American Canal headworks, a post I put together while on a trip gathering photos and information for an upcoming series I have been producing on the Imperial Valley. The project is a self-produced project, one that is set aside when…
Our last full day on our Imperial Valley trip was spent traveling around the Salton Sea.