$300 Travel: The Cheap and Wild Side of Bakersfield
 

I guess NPR is starting a series on cheap travel you can do with your stimulus check - next stop Bakersfield

Just what I want to do on my vacation! I love this part though;
"At the fight-filled race track and junk stores, a traveler learns an important lesson."

Sounds like a great way to spend your $300, on fights and junk stores. I wonder what the next one will be?!

Actually, there used to be some very good antique stores in Bakersfield.....

I just listened to the one on Primm Nevada:

On that same theme, AAA's Westways magazine has an article on the joys of parking your RV overnight in the parking lot of a Fresno area Wal Mart.

Vegas is only 30 minutes or so from Primm.

Then again if a gambler coming in over state line can't wait another hour they may want to rethink their choices in past times.

Primm is good for food and restrooms. And a little shopping - but the outlet mall pretty much sucks.

Saying that Bakersfield has a cheap "side" implies that there's a "not cheap" side to it. Which is LIES.

Depends on whether yuou mean "cheap" as in "inexpensive", or "cheap" as in "tacky".

Nah: I think it applies either way.

There are some very expensive homes in Bakersfield. Oil money...