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You saw a video about a couple of people stuffing a backpack and leaving the store without paying. It said, Meanwhile, in California.

James Woods has his following. I have disliked him since The Onion Field. He is actually a has-been with a recognizable name. I guess his shtick now is stirring the pot. There is no context to the video, no city, no store name. It just lets you imagine that this is going on all over California.
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My wife called her sister who lives down below in LA. Since we live in the high desert of the Antelope Valley, we have adopted the nickname for LA that the old alfalfa farmers and sheep ranchers used. Her sister said it was raining hard there. My wife told her it had rained all night over here.

Of course, the newcomers since 2000 do not remember those old farmers except when they drive out to the remaining alfalfa and onion fields on the east side of both Lancaster and Palmdale.
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My wife didn’t go to church all week. So we decided to take a drive in the direction of Las Vegas. It’s pointless to drive to LA, people are driving around with little to do, you can’t eat anyplace or stop to use the bathroom. We headed up the old route 6 – Sierra Highway. I was talking about it being the main drag with all the old motels, tire shops and diners all fallen on hard times since the freeway opened in the late 70’s.

From Palmdale Blvd on up to Avenue I, Sierra Highway is nothing to write a song about. It is like a dry wood post sticking up out of the ground. Up in Rosamond, I pointed out a grocery store – that was an old Jonson’s market there. I remember those stores, she says, but they were bigger in LA. Today, there are a couple of black shoppers buying some beer.

Sierra ends somewhere between Rosamond and Mojave, I turn left and onto the freeway ramp. Mojave used to be a trucker haven at the corner where the old 58 and the 14 met but the new 58 highway killed Mojave in the early 2000’s. I drove past it on now street level 14, make a right o’blike as Maggie would say and drive a couple of miles up to the new 58.
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It used to be that most people headed to Vegas took the 10 east to the 15 and headed north to the fabled city. Now, I see a lot of traffic headed north on the 14 freeway to take this new freeway all the way to the 15. Except for the interruption in Mojave, they have this beautiful stretch of pavement all the way through, skipping the old detour in Kramer Junction and the old two lane road through Hinkley. I like this route better than the big climb on the 15 from Cajon pass all the way to Barstow.

We stopped at the new rest stop in Boron and enjoyed the fresh warm air there. We felt free from government control and blaring media urging us to wash our hands. I took several pictures of the Salvy Queen with the bluest of skies in the background. The sky up here and in Barstow can change from turquoise to the most exquisite blue stretching all the way to the horizon, highlighted by white clouds that can change to pink or magenta with the setting sun.

We got off the 58 to eat at the Roadside Diner in Kramer Junction. You can still go inside to eat there. It’s a greasy spoon place but it’s clean. The waitress says they are open for truckers, the Burger King next door only offers drive through service. I tell her the last time I was here must have been 40 years ago, she says, only yesterday. That is true, time is suspended for Kramer Junction, Boron and North Edwards. For those desert cities, it’s the same day everyday.