We gathered up our stuff, packed it away and departed from Soledad Canyon TT leaving the weird little quail behind. We started on CA-2, transitioned to CA-14 northbound, turned west on CA-58 into the alleged fun capitol of the world of Bakersfield where we turned north on Ca-65 up to Ca-198 eastbound to Three Rivers, a tiny town at the door of Sequoia National Park.
The drive today mostly passed through massive fruit tree orchards north of Bakersfield. It is no surprise that California feeds a big portion of the world. Maybe they should secede to shield their citizens from the burdens of federal government meddling and the strange, convoluted policies of the Trump administration regarding deportation of the low-hanging fruit of immigrants, Russian spy national security advisers, firing of government employees because they had the audacity to argue constitutional law and reason with the Cheeto Jesus, bombing of abandoned airfields in far-off lands, killing of service personnel for no political gain, massive bomb strikes on vacant land in Afghanistan, health care that will only benefit the affluent (who are already insured) while depriving those who need it and outright bullshit flowing in abundance from the New York realtor’s Putin cockholster (thanks, Colbert!) of a mouth. It seems 48% of the population can, indeed, be wrong. How is it possible that a country as great as the U.S. Can have a genuine bozo in power? The news frightens me every day this narcissistic megalomaniac remains in power.