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37. Agree with them? To me there is no more welcome sight than driving down the grapevine

and seeing Highway 99 stretching off into the distance among the orchards and cotton fields. I know I'm home when I see that and I often wonder what it looked like to my dad when he first saw the same sight in 1936.

I can remember as a kid being able to see all the way from the Sierra to the Coast Range, swimming in the canals, smelling the fresh mown alfalfa on a warm summer night and I get nostalgic.

Granted the valley's not the same place it used to be. I live in the foothills now because my wife had respiratory issues (because the people who call it a cesspool allow their dirty air to blow down the valley). The mom and pop farms have been replaced by corporate mega food factories and we've paved over a lot of the most productive land. We have social problems that have been ignored for too long by our local politicians who are usually in bed with the developers.

But it's still home to me and there are three generations of our family living there, 25 or so of them right down to my 2 year old great grandson.

Nah, I'd never agree with any of the snobs who call this place a cesspool. I might joke about it but believe me I get pretty defensive when I hear that bullshit from Bay Area people.

Sorry if I gave you that impression.