Tehachapi, Ca

We spent most of the summer in Stallion Springs, a fast growing small community about 15 minutes from Tehachapi. The summer breezes and cool summer nights make this an exceptional place for the hot summer months.


Tehachapi sits at about 4000 feet in the Tehachapi Mountains at the western edge of the Mojave Desert. The wind provides a great resource as evidenced by the wind turbines that dot the countryside. Only 45 minutes down the mountain and we are in Bakersfield where Leon grew up.


Tehachapi is rapidly changing from a small town where apple orchards were abundant. The orchards open in late summer and sell their prize product to the public.


Sunsets from Stallion Springs Drive were usually awesome but during the late summer fire on the Grapevine south of Bakersfield sunset took on an amazing appearance with all of the heavy smoke in the air.

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