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By ROBERT PRICE Associate Editorial Page Editor Twenty-minute hikes are no big deal to Lydia Bishop. She goes hiking and biking in the Cascades of west-central Washington every chance she gets. But she undertakes those recreational exertions voluntarily, not because she’s marooned. Bishop, a self-described “rugged mountaineer,” nonetheless managed to maintain her good humor when she found herself momentarily stranded at the new William M. Thomas Air Terminal at Meadows Field last Tuesday. She’d come to town to visit her eightysomething mother and stepfather, as she often does. This time she decided to fly into Fresno, rent a car and drive to Bakersfield. She’d turn in the car at the airport’s rental counter, hop on a Golden Empire Transit bus and walk to mom’s house from the GET bus stop. Bad idea. Bakersfield’s exquisite new terminal has more flights than ever, a lobby that could pass for an art museum and its very own...
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