Blogs from Bakersfield, California, United States, North America

I find that over 1 year has passed since my last blog. I suppose that most have been like us, holed up at home, living our lives in a new strange way. We had 2 trips planned to Europe and several where we started out for Canada but found that we had to postpone each one and then postpone again. We started to forget what we’d originally planned. We delayed plans that involved flying, started driving for destinations only to return home mid-route. My mom came to stay then went back to my brother’s house, returned to our house and then passed away, fortunately not from Covid. For the trip on which we are embarking on now, Trip 1, we had planned to go to Italy and stay for a month. I wanted to stay 2 ... read more

Gestern habe ich Las Vegas verlassen und bin wieder zurueck nach Kalifornien und zwar nach Bakersfield gefahren. Das verlief wieder relativ problemlos. Es war aber wieder eine lange Fahrt durch die Wueste, bevor wieder gruene Vegetation gekommen ist. In der Stadt habe ich mein Hotel gut gefunden und eingecheckt. Ich habe auf dem Zimmer Kaffee getrunken und bin mit dem Smartphone ins Internet. Meinen Laptop habe ich geschohnt, damit er noch nicht ganz kaputt geht. Die Verbindung zwischen Monitor und Tastatur ist defekt und wird mit jedem Oeffnen schlimmer. Vom Hotel bin ich dann ins Zentrum der Stadt und habe wieder einmal Getraenke gekauft. Danach habe ich gegessen und wieder CNN gekuckt. Bei diesem Sender ist aber mindestens die Haelfte Trump-Bashing, wie in den deutschen Medien. Informationen zur boomenden Wirtschaft oder Chinas unfairen Handelspraktiken oder Kriminalitaet ... read more

Last year, while working in Florida, we had a family emergency and bought plane tickets to fly home and back. As it turned out, we had to drive home to work the fires in Northern California, so did not use the tickets. We canceled our flight and thought we’d use the tickets at a later date, if possible. Our time was running out, to use the tickets so we looked for concerts we might like to attend. We found that there were several concerts in London, so we booked our tickets around the concerts. And for the same price, we booked our round trip with one stop. Our 1st flight was set to depart at 11:50 am giving us 2 hours in San Francisco, where we would board our 3 pm non-stop flight to London. We ... read more

Oh boy, a trip to Canada in May, a trip to Canada in June, a trip to Iceland and London in July, Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest in July/August and here we are going to leave again. I’ll blog about these other trips as I can. In May I started an Instagram blog and as we were going along I noticed the mileage of our truck and shot a photo of the odometer. I remembered that a neighbor wanted me to let him know the mileage once in a while. What better than to keep a record by photos. I was thinking about our truck and thought I’d pay tribute to her and the people who have made our journey possible. Back in 2006, we had a truck that was simply not big enough to handle ... read more

I couldn't get into this blog for some time, then gave up. Now, responding to a post, I find that the blog is back. Only 3 years later. So I'm back! And here is my latest blog: Well, so much for blogging the remainder of our last trip. I suspect that I needed a break from the laptop. Instead of this blog, I started a photo blog which did not require a laptop or writing something intelligible. We did return from a great trip to Canada and are now in desperate preparations for 5 summer trips. How did we get to this place? We wanted to have some time to breathe. Alas…. So our first trip will be to head back to Northeast Cali, actually just into Nevada, where kids now live. Our oldest grandson is ... read more

Travel day to Bakersfield, Ca. overnight at Bakersfield River Run RV Park. Extremely clean and neat. Temp. 108. Travel day to Oakhurst, Ca. for our base camp for Yosemite. High Sierra RV Park is one of the few campgrounds in the Yosemite area. We will never stay here again. My RV is 34 ft, and anything larger would never fit no matter what their webpage, or what they tell you over the phone.... read more