I have a couple traveling companions who hitched a ride. There's Lizard. His awkward pose is due to the fact that he's normally a rain gauge...He holds a calibrated glass tube but the tube is packed away. He was originally going on this trip solo but I picked up Toro on a bottle of wine at the new Safeway in Carmel on the way out. Toro is diminutive but can be spotted by the wild sash he wears. His name is just as generic as Lizard's but Toro is definitely a Spanish bull since he came with a bottle of Spanish wine!

In this pic the boys are checking out one of their all wells in Kern county near Bakersfield.
(recommended travel music for this stretch of road...The Eagles' greatest hits! Good road music with a nice country twang.