My wife and I moved to Bakersfield, California in 2012. Back then, we didn’t have high expectations for our new digs. Mainly, we were there because that is where my job as an oilfield machinist took me. As a nurse, my wife can work anywhere and, as a machinist, I have that option as well. …
The clock is running, and the countdown has commenced. I’m starting this blog while sitting in a hotel room in Blythe, California this week. Why Blythe, you ask? Because Blythe is only 24 miles from Quartzsite, Arizona. What’s so special about Quartzsite, you ask? Glad you asked! I told a friend of mine I was …
The closure of Atterdag College surely marked the end of an era. All through the 1930s there had been subtle indications that the Solvang residents were leaning more heavily towards their Danish roots. Solvang’s Danish population, at that time, was about 2/3 of the whole, but that number had been steadily declining, almost from the …
Welcome again faithful readers. Can you believe Christmas is in just 10 days? WOW! With this week’s blog I will be launching a new feature. From 1991 until 2012 there was a television show on PBS, at least in California, appropriately named, California’s Gold. The show was hosted by, and was the vision of, a …