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It may be tempting to cover the Central Valley by zooming along on Interstate 5, but instead, take the slower HIGHWAY 99—often referred to as “California’s Main Street,” and the very same road the fictional Joad family traveled in The Grapes of Wrath. Start in oil-town BAKERSFIELD and head north toward FRESNO, MERCED and MODESTO. As you pass from the San Joaquin Valley into the Sacramento River Delta, take a jog over to Interstate 5 to pass to the west of Sacramento and into Yolo, Colusa and Glenn counties at the north end of the great Central Valley.