We Just Keep Driving Along

We continued south on I-5 today through the heart of California's farm country.  In spite of the drought conditions, there are many crops being raised. The first part of the trip took us through recently harvested rice fields. From the looks of the stubble, it looks to have been a very good crop.

And we saw orchards, lots and lots of orchards! I still say California should follow the example of many Washington and Oregon farmers and put signs on the fields telling us what they are raising! (Please forgive the dirty windows of the coach!)

 

Flying J/Pilot fuel stations are few and far between on this stretch of I-5. We finally came on one near Dunnigan. It was really busy! The trucks were three and four deep waiting to fuel. Diesel was $2.679 a gallon.

A ways south of the truck stop and Sacramento, we turned off onto Hwy 99S. Now we started to see more and more vineyards along with the orchards. We also went by the Blue Diamond plant - I know that many of those trees we saw must be their almonds!

Just past Merced, we pulled into the Merced River RV Park. This is another park we often stop at right along the river. The woman who checked me in said they had had a very good summer and were still having busy weekends, but today there were many pull-through sites available.