By mid-October, the Rio Vista Bass Derby, one of the three largest Delta festivals, came and went. Neither Sara nor Daphine attended. Sara had no real desire to spend much time in Rio Vista. During her school years, the yellow bus picked her up at her front door in Ryde. She attended classes and nothing else, no after-school activities and no visiting because the homebound bus left immediately after classes.
Rio Vista Bass Derby“I get to Rio for a showing now and again,” Daphine said over lunch in Locke one afternoon. “When I opened my shop here instead of Rio, I lost contact with my friends. Rio"s a different county, a different world.”
Later, they stood in Sara"s front yard under the shade trees. After nearly four months of having multiple construction crews crawling inside and out at
