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Friday, June 12, 2009

Day 7, Bakersfield

Sunday morning and we were packed and ready to hit the road nice and late in the morning. ;o) I love leisure travel. This day we needed to put some miles behind us on some rather uninteresting roads. We jumped onto I-5 and headed straight to Bakersfield.

The highway is lined with trees of all kinds of nuts and oranges and stuff like that, so really it is interesting actually. But the fields where they used to grow I-don’t-know-what are now barren. There are signs along the road that say “Congress-Created Dust Bowl”. Wish I had a clue what they were talking about. Something to do with water, obviously. The canals are pretty much dried up. Really creepy.

It seems like the farmland in California has gone feral.

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