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Tracy, California: First Impressions

Posted on June 16, 2016July 11, 2019Author Tim AdamsPosted in Travel2 Replies

(Or first impressions this century: I once feared Tracy and the whole San Joaquin Valley as a hitchhiker’s no man’s land in my ride-thumbing college years, have yet to forget an eleven hour wait for a ride in North Fresno.) Tracy is a city of about 87,000 in the agricultural flatlands east of San Francisco.…

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