After our traditional morning stop at Starbucks, we headed for Visalia and their amazing Farmers Market, open every Saturday all year long.
Beautiful flowers, fruits and veggies for sale and we (of course) succumbed to cherries and nectarines and wished we were able to take more but home is far away....
These beautiful olives called Rick and we bought blue cheese stuffed ones. Yum.
In Bakersfield we went round and round and finally found our way east...
...through the valley with trees growing every kind of fruit you can imagine. As we traveled further, we went through a beautiful canyon...
,..and on through to a valley on the other side.
But then there was the most wonderful surpirse--A Joshua Tree!!!
I so wanted to get to Joshua Tree National Park but it was too far south for us to include it so this was a major gift for me.
At Ale's Steakhouse they have a great "senior dinner" comprised of a salad, a 10 oz. tri-tip steak with mashed potatoes topped with cheese and bacon for--can you believe--$10! We both had it and it was great--why don't more restautants do this?
And tonight, the sky said goodnight to us as we got back to our room.
Do you remember "Death Valley Days"? Ronald Regan advertised Twenty Mule Team Borax and the stories fueled my imagination of the Great West. And we're on our way there tomorrow. Wow.
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