Thank you very much for sharing this interesting happenstance. For me, it is very interesting but some others are going to gain valuable information that is of great benefit for today's nomadic people.
Definitely making the desert leg overnight would help! But the schedule (and wife copilot) dictated otherwise.
I was a little nervous coming back into Cali on the return trip, even though the ficus bonsai were ‘houseplants’ in bonsai substrate. But they didn’t even check us, just waived us through
I am going through bonsai withdrawals only looking at my crappy trees! But unfortunately, I don’t think I can make an event until Nov. I’m sure by then I will be in full panic mode about the upcoming winter.