Sacramento – Day 1

Wednesday July 1 – Well kind of. Actually I am writing this on Thursday morning. You see last night we were visiting with Nancy and Bob Anderson here at our place to the wee hours of the morning and I didn’t have time to fulfill my blogging obligations. Well I lied a little about that also. You know us old retired people, the wee hours of the morning is around 10PM. We need our beauty sleep. And believe me I need a lot of beauty sleep. Ya, Ya -I know- too little too late. Anyway back to Nancy and Bob. Nancy is Dianne’s school chum from wayyyyy back in the 6th grade. I mentioned back in the first posting. You remember the giggle fest. Now I was properly chastised by Nancy and was told that grown women don’t giggle. Well I must admit that I stand corrected. After listening to those two, grown women do not giggle. They snigger, chuckle, chortle, laugh and guffaw.
Anyway yesterday was a travel day up I-5 from Bakersfield to Sacramento. For the first time since we left home we did not have to climb any big hills. I-5 from Bakersfield to Sacramento is Flat Flat Flat. Did I mention that that it was flat?
The word for day was Trucks. There were trucks everywhere on I-5. There must have been the same number of trucks as autos. You get by one truck and there were another 50 or 100 ahead of you. They must really enforce the 55 MPH truck speed limit here as we didn’t find many that were exceeding it by much. We were wishing the orchards and fields had signs saying what was growing there. Saw trucks full of carrots, onions and watermelons. Nancy said many of the fields around where we are camped are growing rice. Will have to look more closely today.
We figured there are three basic professions in this part of California. One is truck driving (see above), the other is farming and the last is being a prisoner. During the 300 mile trip we must have passed 7 or 8 state prisons. That is roughly 1 prison every 40 miles. For some odd reason Dianne didn’t want me to pick up a hitchhiker standing alongside the road-after all he had on a nice red jumpsuit.
Today we will be going into Sacramento to get a picture of the Capitol building and then heading to the Jelly Belly factory. Who knows, once they a look at my jelly belly I may even get a job as their spokesperson.
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