Most of California is NOT Hollywood, or even populated at all. Yesterday I spent eight-and-a-half hours driving down Interstate 5 to visit Erin in Fremont, a part of the "San Francisco Bay Area" (which is hugely populated) to help her pack up her household in preparation for her move to Kuwait in August. This is the view out my windscreen "somewhere in the Central Valley" - this is where your food comes from, folks!
The lease on Erin's house is up in June, as is her school year here in the States, so she'll need to have the shippers come in late May and live out of her suitcases for the last few weeks. We will get to have her up in Oregon with us for July and part of August. She says she has "dibs" on the trailer! We shall have to see about that.
Coming from the mountains of Central Oregon, I'd forgotten how flat (and fertile) the Valley is. It looks the way I'd imagine the MidWest looks. Not having much experience being on the Great Plains, I'd not really know. I do know the road is straight and flat, and so are the fields. There was lots of tractor activity in the distance, and it was very warm already - I do remember that it gets very hot in the Valley in the summer.
This tractor was plowing to ready a field for planting rice. Far different from the photos I've seen of rice-growing regions in Asia! Not a Water Buffalo in sight. The tractor is one of the really big ones that is air conditioned and has a stereo and a cushy seat... and the driver doesn't have to wear one of the conical rice-farmer hats, either. After the field is prepared, they flood it and the rice is ready to grow. California is a leading producer of rice... even exporting to Asia. Globalization-R-Us.
Seems like a nice drive. I absolutely love to travel through the river valley and prairie lands of Minnesota in summer. Gorgeously breath taking land. What's the 'trailer' and did Erin get it?
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