I arrived in Modesto, CA. According to a guide book I got at my hotel. The town is one of the gate ways to Yosemite National Park, but I don't have time to go there. Anyway, I took the picture below at a shop on the way from LA. The guy with a cap from somewhere in the east told me that he was very happy to have his boots shone like this. Unfortunately, I didn't have boots, either!