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“Try to remain hungry.” “I simply demand a slice of staff of life or something…” “I know, but simply don’t run yesteryear overboard…you’ll demand your appetite.” Watch the Video! So goes the dorsum too forth betwixt my married adult woman too I every bit nosotros caput on across the Tejon Pass, simply due north of Los Angeles. It’s been a long Lent too immediately we’re ready to suspension it. It’s fourth dimension for a food-centered trip to ane of the great, undiscovered nutrient destinations inwards California…Bakersfield. It’s mid Apr every bit nosotros create got an like shooting fish in a barrel effort over the Grapevine. Sunny too warm, it’s the perfect weather condition for the wildflowers that pigment the hillsides inwards a higher identify Gorman. Still early on for them, they’re simply starting the show. Come hither at the offset of May too it should hold out spectacular. First up, a snack to concur my married adult woman too boy over ...

What many telephone phone Nashville West sits on overstep of the biggest crude deposit on the continental USA due west coast. With crude billionaire at i terminate in addition to completely destitute at the other, the contrasts tin forcefulness out move severe. It's the get-go urban substance of whatsoever size you lot come across afterward you've crossed the San Gabriel Mountains northward of Los Angeles. It's non a long stimulate simply it's a fleck nervus wracking coming over the Grapevine on Interstate 5. We're hungry, the urban substance is hot, in addition to nosotros become to the get-go house nosotros e'er create inwards Bakersfield...Los Tacos de Huicho where Mexican street nutrient is taken to its highest level.  A few tacos in addition to sopes nether out belt in addition to a quick check-in at our hotel, nosotros caput eastward of town where nosotros take in the animals of the California Living Museum , too know equally CALM , Bake...

...redrum...RedRuM...REDRUM... OK, lilliputian Danny Torrance...calm down. It's non murder to brand 1 of these together with they sense of savour oh.so.good. Watch The Video! This calendar week on the Cocktail Hour it's my Redrum, which is...not murder...but a carmine rum drink. Here is the recipe... INGREDIENTS (two drinks): 3 oz. nighttime rum 1 oz. Grand Marnier or orangish liquer juice of 1 lime splash of grenadine 4 oz. cranberry cocktail Put all ingredients into cocktail shaker 1/2 filled alongside ice, mix, together with strain into 2 highball spectacles filled alongside ice. Cheers! -Darryl

JULY 2,2010 - UPDATED CONTENT BELOW (Scroll down) Previously on : Bakersfield , nosotros ate some groovy tacos, drank an awesome margarita, listened to some province music, as well as took inwards some stock motorcar racing. Watch the Video! The side past times side day, nosotros larn gear upwards for some baseball. Today, we’re taking inwards a game of the Bakersfield Blaze who are hosting the Lancaster Jethawks. The Blaze are the unmarried H5N1 tike league affiliate of the Texas Rangers, patch the Jethawks are alongside the Houston Astros. ( Note: The Blaze discontinued operations inwards 2016. Sam Lynn ballpark is forthwith domicile to an independent team, the Bakersfield Train Robbers - Ed ) It’s a Sunday, thence that agency a 24-hour interval game. H5N1 rigid breeze greets us equally nosotros larn to the parking lot of Sam Lynn Stadium inwards Bakersfield. I similar the wheelchair seats hither because they are elevated platforms inwards the get-go row of t...

UPDATE 2018 - Well, some other i bites the dust. Trout's, the terminal truthful honky tonk inwards Bakersfield, stopped operating unopen to June of terminal year. The club's owner, Thomas Rockwell, defaulted on the depository fiscal establishment loan in addition to the edifice was sold at auction to Truman Investments, Inc. At that point, Rockwell seems to receive got disappeared or is at to the lowest degree 'lying low' every bit i of the attorneys involved says.  He also seems to receive got absconded amongst the iconic trout sign out front. Now, the novel owners are suing him for damages in addition to provide of the sign...if they tin discovery him. What is to cash inwards one's chips of this legendary nightclub is anyone's estimate at this point. For now, if y'all desire to hear alive Country music inwards this Country music Mecca, your alone selection is the Crystal Palace in addition to perchance the occasional concert past times a headliner at t...

“Y’all must live crazy” Yep, that’s what a lot of yous are going live maxim when yous encounter where were going. The truth is, we’ve been to over a dozen countries in addition to most of the states, but when nosotros finally left the throughway in addition to started exploring, Bakersfield turned out to live 1 of the most fun in addition to interesting places we’ve been. OK, therefore if I haven’t lost yous past times now, delight read on piece I plead my case… Watch the Video of this trip! For a twosome of years after 9/11, the move manufacture was on the ropes. You could instruct airfares in addition to hotels for a song. Eventually, the economic scheme turned somewhat in addition to many inwards the manufacture tried to recoup the losses…tried very, real difficult inwards some cases. In the most intense menses of Tim’s college days, nosotros had real piffling fourth dimension to spare during the schoolhouse twelvemonth in addition to fifty-fifty less coin to do it al...