"California here I come, right back where I started from . . . "
Yep, this month I'm going to California to visit for a few days. First to the Palm Springs area to visit my daughter, then to Bakersfield to visit my sister Martha and for a 55-year class reunion on April 27, then to Russo's Bookstore for a book signing of my books (eight of them) the next day, April 28, then up to Visalia, possibly a booksigning there (more on that later) ... but in Visalia mostly to visit my sister Mary. Then back home again.
So it'll be a quick trip, but I'll be taking pics and notes, will post them here for you to experience and get a glimpse of those parts of California where I was raised.
We moved to the San Joaquin Valley when I was ten, in the '50s, from where my sisters and I were born in Oxnard. So at ages 10, 8, and 1 ... we all three began a life in the small farm town of Wasco, a few miles northwest of Bakersfield, southwest of Visalia. Both my sisters are back in the valley now, after a few years living in Morro Bay on the Central Coast.
So more on the trip at the end of the month ...
