Rain coming

4th June 2012

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June 4th 2012
After a luxurious night in Bakersfield ,free breakfast and a leisurely start around 9am, we set off for San Francisco. The landscape around Bakersfield was field after field of fruit trees and vineyards as far as the eye could see on either side of the dead straight road. Some times the green was broken by fields of flowers, mostly sweet williams in vivid colours. The fields were being tended b ... 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