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and is supposed to go to Mexico when it is completed in 1972.
At one of our rest stops we had a huge glass of fresh orange juice and watched the oranges squeezed. Now we were going into the rich Santa Clara Valley. Here were the orchards of fruits and nuts. We stopped at the Orchard Fruit Stand where we were invited to taste the dried fruits. These fruits are dried fresh from the orchards. How I wished for a way to bring some home. For my first time I tasted fried almonds. We hated to leave tfyis valley but soon we left Rt. 152 for Rt. 156 where walnut, fig and apricot trees were in abundance. There were also fields of Chili peppers. We went to Hollister where the vineyards belong to the Winery Company. We also saw the land belonging to the Ferris Seed Company. We saw fields of flowers grown for seed.
Castroville is famous for growing artichokes. There were fields of these along our drive. There some cotton is grown. In this area are the world’s largest strawberry patches. We saw a field of tuberose begonias in bloom.
We passed Fort Ord where the men leave for overseas and now for Vietnam. Fort Ord has the tremendous recreation house, due to Stilwell. He said “the little man is the most important man in the Army”. His widow lives in Carmel.
We had lunch at the Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey on its harbor where seals were barking. This was on the old Cannery Row that John Steinbeck wrote about. From some cause the sardines left the waters, so now the Row is slowly
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