Crossing Over...California's Delta


Well, it was a fun but hectic couplet of days inward the city. Crowded bar hopping in addition to people watching inward San Francisco, hence a fun baseball game game inward a decrepit stadium.  We won't refer the inadequate hotel accommodations...

 Now it's fourth dimension to hitting the route for to a greater extent than bucolic locales but starting fourth dimension it's a race against fourth dimension equally nosotros own got 100 minutes to get from O.co Coliseum inward Oakland to the Jelly Belly mill inward Fairfield.

It's a jam trying to run out of the ballpark's lot but when I regard a couplet of cars pare off inward a direction nobody else is using, I own got a adventure in addition to follow along. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 infinitesimal later, we're whizzing off on Interstate 880 in addition to nosotros larn inward to the Jelly Belly parking lot at 4:55 when they unopen at 5:00.

 No worries, we're non at that spot for the tour...which is fascinating, yesteryear the way...just to run inward a larn a few bags of Belly Flops.

 The Flops are the jelly beans that create non encounter the stiff character command standards of the company. The seconds, if you lot will.  Supposedly, exclusively sold at the mill (but I've seen them online, at Costco, in addition to the 99 Cent Only store), they are merely equally proficient equally the others, merely oddly shaped sometimes.

 As I larn into the door, I hither the announcement: "attention Jelly Belly fans, our facilities volition locomote closing inward 2 minutes."  I've been hither hence many times, it's non a problem. I know merely where they shop the Flops inward the bins, option upward v bags (buy 3, larn 2 for free), in addition to caput to the counter.

Success!

 Just a couplet of blocks away is the entrance to Highway 12, the route across the Delta.  It's a leisurely hr get through this scenic in addition to endangered outlet where the Sacramento in addition to the almost-gone San Joaquin rivers converse in addition to meander across the flatlands heading for San Francisco Bay.

Occasionally, you'll regard large tankers navigating the narrow channels, causing the drawbridges to rise.

 It's on to Interstate 5, where nosotros overstep the hotel where we got stuck exterior of Lodi, hence into the metropolis itself. Today, though, we're continuing through to the hills beyond.

 That volition locomote merely about other adventure for merely about other day.

 Darryl
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