Places
Cabo San Lucas: The Playa Grande Resort
Since we missed the cold weather and all that ugly late-winter snow this year, some of you probably think that we didn’t need a spring vacation. You are probably right – we weren’t driven by that tired-of-all-this-crap weather weariness that we have experienced before. But one of the advantages(?) of owning a timeshare is … Continue reading
LA and other imaginary places
Los Angeles is real. I know; I’ve seen it. But it doesn’t seem real. It is bigger than real. The place of movie stars and the 4-car family. Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Mulholland Drive, Sunset Strip, Malibu, South Central, Disneyland, Charles Manson, Universal Studios, and the Beach Boys. Iconic names and images that shaped my life. … Continue reading
Jojoba Hills SKP RV Resort
Just down the road from where we are staying is the Jojoba Hills SKP RV Resort, one of the “co-op” RV parks associated with the Escapees RV Club. Staying there was not an option for us as non-owners are limited to 28 days per year, which ran a little short of the 4 months we … Continue reading
Getting away from it all
Jett and I love Mexico. It gets a lot of bad press with the drug violence, but everyplace we have been has been safe, beautiful and fun. There is an air of freedom in Mexico that I haven’t felt many places in the US. It is a good place to get away from it all. … Continue reading
General Delivery
Those few of you who have sent us mail recently know that our mailing address is General Delivery, Aguanga, CA. I have never had a General Delivery address before, but it makes me feel like I am living in Mayberry. General Delivery may not be the same as Rural Free Delivery (RFD), which is the … Continue reading
You can’t get there from here
We will be in California for another two months – until June 8. But it is not too early to think about the route that we will take to get back to Massachusetts. We are committed to arriving by July 15, so that means that we need to travel across the country in just 5 … Continue reading
Walking the cheetah
Great zoos are hard to find. There are good reasons for this, the primary one being cost. Keeping a Siberian tiger healthy and happy takes a lot of money. Another good reason is habitat. Koalas, for example, eat nothing but fresh eucalyptus leaves – you can’t even give them frozen ones. Housing arctic polar bears … Continue reading
Life on the links
For the first time in my life I am living on a golf course. We are renting a site here at Rancho California RV Resort that is close to the #3 tee. A little *too* close, perhaps. Looking at the site plan, we thought we would be safe from errant shots, but we didn’t take … Continue reading
Temecula
Temecula is a middlin’-sized town (about 100,000 residents) about an hour from Los Angeles, an hour from Palm Springs and an hour from San Diego. It is about 400 miles south of San Jose, which is why we are here: we were hoping that we would get warmer weather by moving closer to the Mexican … Continue reading
Patience, please
I haven’t written any long blog posts for a while, for two reasons: (1) I have been very busy with work and taxes for the past two weeks and (2) we lost our camera. The camera is not a great loss and, fortunately, it went missing just after I took off all the photos. But … Continue reading