Our Meandering Drive to China Ranch Date Farm in Tecopa, California

We start to see signs for
China Ranch Date Farm.

The road ahead is

 steep & curvy.

The road narrows to
one lane.

Wind swept rock formations

jut out of the hillsides.

They have a variety
of shapes.

We arrive at 

China Date Ranch.

The sign on the left gives a brief history of the origin of the date farm's name.  Chinese borax miner, Ah Foo, left the mines to take up farming in this secluded valley.  He raised vegetables and livestock and sold them to local silver miners.  The valley became known as "China Man's Ranch."  The property changed hands several times and the name went with it.