Homeward through Kern
(58 West
in
the fog,
clearing
to 99
North's stark,
surreal
plain),
Tulare (cutting across on 198),
Kings (past Leemore Naval Air Station),
Fresno
(Harris
Ranch,
making
the
jump to
I-5
along Coalinga
and
the
various
Panoche
Ridges),
Merced
(Santa
Nella,
including
petrol
and
Pea Soup Andersen's),
Stanislaus (Newman,
Crow's Landing,
Del Puerto
and
Ingram Canyons),
San Joaquin (towards Diablo),
and Alameda Counties (Livermore Valley) -- arriving to an empty house, Harriet soon returning from dropping Marek off at the Sacramento bus station.
