Places
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
The convenience of isolation
When we lived in Medford, MA, we had two major supermarkets within a mile, yet I often found myself looking at the refrigerator an 11 pm and discovering that I had no milk for my morning cereal. We now live in Aguanga, CA, which is ten miles from anywhere and 15 miles from the nearest … Continue reading
Wile E. sighting
Two days after I saw the roadrunner I saw a coyote, just outside the park gates. I guess those cartoons had more basis in reality than I thought.
Beep beep
I saw my first roadrunner yesterday. We were walking the dogs around the RV park and it just walked out of the bushes about 20 feet in front of us. Having been raised on Roadrunner cartoons, I couldn’t help but look around to see if Wile E. Coyote was hiding nearby, perhaps with an Acme … Continue reading
The trek-ula to Temecula
We left San Jose last Saturday, heading south in search of warmer temperatures. It was a 2-day trek with two wildly different segments. The first day was a bucolic trip down the central valley, a mostly-flat and fairly boring trip. There were a lot of orchards and vegetable fields lining I-5. The only hilly and … Continue reading
Temecula address
For those (very few) of you who want to write and/or send gifts, here is our new address: General Delivery Aguanga, CA 92536 I will describe the new place and our trip down here soon.
A dog’s life
We leave tomorrow to head down to Temecula. We are looking forward to the drive as sitting still for two months seemed unnatural after three straight months of travel. But it will be just two days of travel, then 3 to 4 more months of staying put. Although they haven’t said so, we believe the … Continue reading
Winchester Mystery House
This is a catch-up (catsup, ketchup?) post. We went to the Winchester Mystery House exactly one month ago – January 6th – but I haven’t gotten around to blogging about it until now, partly because the few pictures that we took (interior photos are not permitted) didn’t come off the camera until this morning. The … Continue reading
Alcatraz
We will be leaving the Bay Area in a few days and will be leaving a lot of “wish list” things undone. We aren’t going to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge and we aren’t going to ride the cable cars. But we can cross off Alcatraz because we went there last Sunday. It was … Continue reading