Even though we were only at home for week, it was still hard to get away. Lou and Dawn packed in the morning and then Dawn went to a meeting in San Jose. I finally got away just before 1pm and headed down to Gilroy. Lou and Dawn met me there but in the short time since i had come down, highway 101 came to a standstill so they came down on the old highway (Monterey Highway). I picked up lunch at Super Taqueria where they met me then we were off arriving in Tulare about 6:20pm.
Our campsite at the Ag Expo. We're parked in the RV lot next to the show so the morning commute to the show is about 100'.
We drove to town and ate dinner at the Black Bear Diner. I had fish and chips and Lou and Dawn shared a Cobb salad. Too much as usual, but very good!
Saturday: (04/18) We enjoyed breakfast of Lou's apricot cobbler and Italian sausage, a nice combo. Lou made the cobler from some of last years apricots from the freezer. The show opened at 8am and we went in shortly thereafter.
Lots old old trucks to be seen. Old pickups and old big rigs.
Some of the old trucks are cute and some still working.
Some of the tractors are very unique. The one above left is a garden tractor decorated with some sheet metal from an old tractor. The little one on the right is a "Case" tractor or probably a couple of cases, of beer cans, went in to making the tractor.
I looked around at the tractors setting up in a line for the parade. Green comes in lots of shapes. The parade started at 9:30 and lasted until after 11:00. They all are driven by the parade route on the grounds. It's interesting to see them moving at all let alone running so well. Some of them are over 100 years old.
Big old tractors were in abundance.
An old cotton picker above left. Lots of hit or miss engines and hot air engines on display along with samples of what they were used to provide power for.
An operating shingle mill was demonstrated.
Granny waiting for the parade to begin. A young farmer learning the ropes.
Never too young or small to drive a tractor.
There was also a flea market, and an auction. Plenty to see but not as much as in previous years when they also had RV's on display, an International Scout 4x4 club show, and a quilt show, etc.
Lou and Dawn examined much of the flea market thoroughly. I marveled at the equipment. We had V8 juice and bananas for lunch.
It seems like we were just here but we evidently missed the two previous years of the show. Here are links to some of our previous visits to this show: 2006, 2005, 2004. Our first visit to the show was in 2003. That was the beginning of our vagabond ways. On the trip home, we stopped at several RV dealers in Fresno and Lou bought me our current RV for my birthday present. That was nice. I started blogging our travels with the first trip but that first visit to this show was before the blog.
Dinner was a spinach salad with apricot feta cheese, dried cranberries, and sunflower seeds.
Sunday: (04/19) Breakfast was the same today, apricot cobbler and Italian sausage.
We went back into the show again this morning. There were some parts of the flea market that had been unvisited by Lou and Dawn and we all looked over all the hit or miss engines some more. i watched more of the parade today as well. Just before noon we were through and returned to the RV and departed.
Here are some videos. I may have to change the format for easier viewing?
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