- Visit the Bakersfield Museum
- Go to a Blaze game
- Visit the Wasco Rose Garden
- Do some sightseeing in the Ridgecrest area
- Drive Route 66 out to Needles, then come back through Palm Springs and visit the nature garden there
- Visit Mono Lake
- Take my wife to see the Grand Canyon
- Visit a couple of life-long friends
- Eat one more meal at KC Steakhouse
- See one more Padres game