Back To The Streets Of Bakersfield - Business Office 2



See Part 1 of this written report here.

 It's morning time and, after having breakfast at the dining room of the Homewood Suites,we are heading out to practice some thrift store shopping. Bakersfield is loaded amongst mo manus shops, pawn shops, in addition to antique stores.
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 Before nosotros exit of the parking lot, however, nosotros notice a crowd of cars at the Kaiser Permanente medical hospital adjacent door which is unopen for the weekend. We caput over to reckon what the commotion is all about.

 The commotion is the Haggin Oaks Farmers Market, which sets upwards store hither each weekend. 


It's huge, total of organic produce, crafts, nutrient booths, musicians, in addition to fifty-fifty a duad of vendors for your pets.  There are in addition to hence many gratis samples of nutrient hither nosotros are wondering why nosotros ate at the hotel.

While Letty ponders a few crafts vendors, Tim in addition to I nibble our agency through the fruit in addition to nutrient vendors.  We halt upwards amongst a prissy size pocketbook of citrus, some summertime rock fruit, fresh squeezed apple/cherry/pomegranate juice (will come upwards inwards handy after for cocktails), in addition to some arts and crafts items my married adult woman picked up.

 Luckily, it's adjacent door to the hotel in addition to we've got a kitchen inwards our room. I stash the nutrient inwards the refrigerator to retard the ripening until nosotros become home. 

 I drib Letty off at a Goodwill store on Coffee Road spell Tim in addition to I run the van through the machine launder adjacent door.

The afternoon is spent dorsum at the hotel where nosotros build proficient purpose of the puddle elevate in addition to become for a swim. We come across a duad where the adult woman grew upwards hither in addition to her immature human being was visiting from West Virginia. 

We verbalize in addition to gossip nigh all the Bakersfield history in addition to characters spell having some rum in addition to farmers marketplace position juice punches before taking a nap to teach create for the night.

 Years ago, Bakersfield had i of the premiere little race tracks inwards the country, Mesa Marin, amongst a high banked, paved, 1/2 mile oval.  The relentless march of urbanization doomed the track, which is similar a shot a commons for a novel housing development.

About xv miles due east of where it was, a replacement was built far from the sprawl of Bakersfield inwards the oil fields off of Interstate five on the due west side of the valley.  Kern County Raceway Park has opened this yr to direct maintain the identify of Mesa Marin.

 Our choices this evening were honky tonking at Trout's...a nightclub inwards nearby Oildale...or the races. Since we're sort of early on birds in addition to the music would direct maintain us belatedly into the night, races won over music today.

The facility at Kern County Raceway is brand, spanking novel in addition to spiffy. Handicap parking at the gate, liberal purpose of ramps in addition to elevators, in addition to perfectly placed wheelchair seating inwards the shade makes this a wonderfully accessible track. 

Letty notices that the initials, position on five human foot lighted reddish letters on the top of the stands, are KCRP or K-Crap every bit she calls it. The rail is non crap only the beer selection certain is...Bud, Bud Lite, Bud Lite Lime, in addition to Michelob Ultra are the entirely choices here.

I told Letty you'd direct maintain a ameliorate sense if y'all drank H2O in addition to hyperventilated.

 The evening's festivities kickoff off amongst a monster truck demonstration where a huge truck smashed 3 junk cars over in addition to over again, getting flung higher in addition to higher inwards the air amongst each pass.

The top cast of the night, super stocks, run their principal fifty-fifty adjacent (I gauge qualifying in addition to rut races are held before inwards the day), followed yesteryear mini legends cars whose 8-12 yr quondam drivers race on a little 1/8 mile track.

The kids are treated just the same every bit the adult drivers in addition to teach to direct maintain a motion-picture demo amongst the leggy trophy daughter in addition to an interview amongst the on-track announcer.
Next come upwards super cross motorcycles, basically Motocross bikes amongst street tires who race around a make-do route course of study in addition to fountain gear upwards on the front end straight. I establish this race to move my favorite of the evening.

After all that, the opened upwards wheel modifieds direct maintain the rail for their 30-lap principal number which provides the entirely crash...a modest one...of the evening. 

It's a lot of fun in addition to nosotros telephone phone it a nighttime after that. It's a rattling black ride dorsum into town.

In the morning, nosotros caput over to practice some shopping. Over inwards downtown, nosotros striking upwards a few pawn shops in addition to a jewelry store in addition to fifty-fifty uncovering some things nosotros desire to purchase only no one's inwards a mood to build a bargain today. 

 Next, nosotros caput over to J & E Restaurant Supply inwards Old Kern (the quondam downtown) where Letty scores amongst some kitchen items.

 Tim in addition to I i time again abandon Letty only leave of absence her the van this fourth dimension in addition to nosotros walk the sometimes crude oil streets of due east downtown. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quick fountain over to the adjacent block along Mill Creek (a canal spiffed upwards into a prissy piffling riverwalk) to 18th Street.

It's fourth dimension to halt inwards amongst our friends at "Southern California's Top Three Margaritas" for to a greater extent than on Mexicali's version)

Eventually, Letty joins us where nosotros walk nearby to Los Tacos de Huicho to direct maintain some other plate of sopes in addition to tacos to bookend this weekend.

What a fun identify this is. Can't expression to come upwards dorsum to our friendly "home away from home."

 Darryl
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