Saturday afternoon, as I reflected on the plans I made for the road trip I hoped to start a few days ago, I made a few calls, and decided I would do my roadtrip after all. As I made too many plans to set this up, my work schedule was free for the next week, and the rain didn’t seem as bad as the weathercasters predicted, I decided to just go for it. I got a late start in the afternoon, but it felt good to get on the road and do this 400+ mile journey. There’s at least 10 people I’ve been meaning to see, scattered from Santa Barbara to San Clemente, so I made the leap of faith, and jumped into my faithful iron chariot I call “Blackbird Lou” and drove south on a Saturday afternoon. It’s a good week for an adventure…<\/p>\n
As luck would have it, there some was snow (??) in Southern California that shut down Highway 5 just south of the Highway 99 connection. As I decided it was futile to drive further south that night, I took a quick little detour and wound up in Bakersfield. I found a comfy little hotel that was supposed to have high-speed broadband access, but unfortunately, it felt like a bad dial-up connect, so I wrote this up while I was off-line, only to be slightly revised and uploaded later.<\/p>\n
Who would have guessed that I’d be stuck in Bakersfield on Saturday night? I always wanted to see Buck Owens<\/strong> play at the Crystal Palace, but I missed that chance. This Sunday morning as I drove through Bakersfield, trying to find a decent gospel radio station, or a coffee shop where one might see a girl with faraway eyes, I gave up on the idea on paying tribute to a certain song written by a couple of guys named Keith and Mick, and did not run twenty red lights to honor anyone\u2019s favorite religious icon. Instead, I jumped back onto highway 5 towards the Los Angeles region, listening to my MP3 collection that featured Amy LaVere<\/strong>, and Delaney & Bonnie<\/strong>, which both kinda sound like gospel to me in their own roundabout way.<\/p>\n Today was actually a fantastic day for the documentary, but frankly, I think I\u2019ll save it for another entry. Right now, it\u2019s time to decompresss\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday afternoon, as I reflected on the plans I made for the road trip I hoped to start a few days ago, I made a few calls, and decided I would do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ep-world","category-production-at-louie-central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}