Down the Central Valley

LA

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October 5th 2009
After we left San Francisco Friday morning, we headed South on I-5 again, this time through the dry and dusty Central Valley. There were huge almond groves, olives, truckloads of oranges, and a lot of other fields we couldn't identify, all watered by irrigation, and with water an increasingly scarce resource in California, many of the fields and groves looked pretty parched. We also passed a large ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more