May 15 Porterville

Jason was out of town in the morning so we went exploring and discovered a huge swap meet going on in town. Karen was in her element! I had to drop her off and take Mickey back to the trailer. It's 85 out and we can't leave him in the truck.
As I'm returning, she calls me on our walkie talkie and says she needs more cash ,so I pick her up and we go looking for a cash machine.
Fresh cash in hand we returned to what the locals call the Mexican Market. There are only a few white people here and we are very white indeed,not much of a tan yet!

A few purchases and a burrito later , we head back to pick up Mickey before meeting Jason.

There are lots of orange groves along the road . We stopped for a picture and picked a couple of oranges. They were the sweetest, juiciest oranges we had ever tasted. Maybe because they were solen!
There are also miles of almond and olive trees.

We got to his house at 2, nice to finally see where he and Eve and the girls live. It's a nice house with a pool.
Jason has made a business for himself manufacturing and machining parts
for agricultural equipment.
The top picture is machine he developed and the next one is part of a conveyor he also built for harvesting walnuts. A lot of welding in that!
The last is one of his daughter Sammy in his shop.