After a good breakfast at the hotel and filling up with gas ($4.17pg) we started up highway 99 towards Fresno. Through dairy and farming area with the snow covered mountains of Yosemite in the distance, where we could very easily be persuaded to turn to, love Yosemite! Turned west towards Los Banos which is a big fruit, nut and vegetable area with beautiful old barns and huge plowed paddocks ready for the spring crops. Still heading south towards Hollister where ...

On the road by 9:30am after filling up with gas at $3.87per gallon which is much cheaper than Los Angeles where we have been paying $4.29 p/l. Drove back down towards Barstow where we arrived for lunch at McDonalds Barstow Station on Main St (route 66). From Barstow we travelled across to Bakersfield, firstly through desert, then when we hit the hills, lush rolling hills, a big contrast. Checked in to our hotel, Holiday Inn Express, south of town. We have an acqu...

Decided to travel to Vegas today to take a look at a couple of cars, one out in the desert just outside Barstow the other in Las Vegas itself. Beautiful spring day warm and not a breathe of wind just what we expected it to be , the rain and snow was just a teaser!! Arrived mid afternoon, checked into our hotel Sam's Town, an older Casino further out of town. Nice rooms with an atrium courtyard $55per night, not bad. Went to view the second car for the day and...

More leisurely morning than yesterday, not as much planned. Thought we should pick up out Tbird spare parts while we had the time, so off for a drive around the LA freeways, that's an adventure in itself. The salesman at Prestige Thunderbird Frank, was really friendly and helped us with any queries we had, he was so knowledgable. We were there nearly 3 hours. Then went down to Signal Hill to join the Classic Thunderbird Club International. Mick wanted to view a ...

An early start for our day at the Pomona Swap Meet arriving around 6am with many others already ahead of us. This swap meet has everything automotive and some interesting bric a brac. We combed the car aisles first and found a couple of prospective purchases, then trawled through the hundreds of spare part stalls. Tbird and mustang parts were on our shopping list and shopping was quite successful, with a few bargains being found. Left with slightly sore feet ...