Image of the Week – 9/13/15
Kern County
Southern California – Defined?
This website started off covering a small area, the Santa Clarita Valley. I later started a second website for the San Diego area. Both sites were somewhat limited in scope. Now, with those sites combined, I’ve also increased the area that the website covers. The new name for the site, Southern California Regional Rocks and …
Fuel Prices… a look back
With the price of gasoline dropping recently, I thought it might be a good idea to show what prices were 14 years ago during the last big price drop.
Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway
This month marks 16 years for me as an Adopt-A-Highway program volunteer. In August 1998, I adopted a section of Interstate 5 in Grapevine Canyon in Kern County. To be more specific, my section is on Route 5 between Postmiles 6 and 8 in Kern County. I chose that section initially as it allowed me …
Out of the Lake: Old Highway 178 and the town of Isabella
Long before the Isabella Reservoir was built in the 1950’s, State Highway 178 passed through the Kern River Valley on an alignment much different than it is today. With the current drought, Lake Isabella is a puddle of what it used to be…but it’s amazing what the lake has hidden all these years. The lake …
