So they went 15 miles dueeast right to the edge of the coast, and then went -- basically turned back and made a straight beeline up the coast, and that takes you back to the airport in New Orleans.
Late in the fall, during a rare lull in his work on the Mars program, Grotzinger and I took a drive to Death Valley due east from his house in lush San Marino, across the front range of the San Gabriels, past Apple Valley and Barstow, and down into the great basin of the Mojave.