We all made it to Bakersfield! Came in at six, so means nine hours total, but stopped for at least an hour and a half total. Considering the traffic, say made good time!
Had dinner at Milt's, if anyone knows. I was going to go to Hodel's, but was a mad house with some kind of event. Seems odd to be in the same hotel and eat at the same place I did growing up and going many times to Bakersfield, but alone.
Think will spend the morning going to church and see if the lumber yard is still there. It was falling down and long abandoned in the late 1990's, so just going to the site for fun, and if there, be amazed. I know the home is still down the street along with the old homestead. Makes me kind of depressed thinking of all the places and people gone... But, at least I got to know some of them.