We find ourselves in Bakersfield, CA, a city in the very heart of the Okie agricultural migration of the 1930’s. The famous community of Weedpatch, with its community facilities used for housing by depression era families, is just a few miles south. Bakersfield is also home of the “Bakersfield Sound” that was a country western sub genre popularized by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Be that as it may, we’re here for a different reason…..
Our summer trip has officially begun, and after some serious and careful thought, we’ve decided on a name for it. Borrowing a thought from Pink Floyd, we’ve decided to call it
We’re heading due east from Bakersfield, and with a few stops along the way, hoping to arrive in Georgia in a month or so. A random decision could bring us back west along the Texas Gulf Coast and eventually to midstate Texas. If the wind blows in the proper direction, we’ll be back in Georgia and into North Carolina before turning north toward Minnesota, southern Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Got that?
Now you know why this trip is called “A Momentary Loss of Reason” tour.
We hope you’ll hop in and travel along with us. Here we go!
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